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Answer for the clue "Annihilation by reducing something to atoms ", 11 letters:
atomization

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Word definitions for atomization in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atomization \At`om*i*za"tion\, n. The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced. (Med.) The reduction of fluids into fine spray.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act, or an instance of atomizing

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, noun of action from atomize .

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Atomization or atomizer may refer to:

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. separating something into fine particles [syn: atomisation , fragmentation ] annihilation by reducing something to atoms [syn: atomisation ]

Usage examples of atomization.

Knowing that the appearance of electricity depends on a process of atomization of some sort, we shall expect that where electricity becomes freely observable, it will yield phenomena of an atomistic kind.

The Lensmen aged, the magic adaptors did not, in the end, work: Roddenberry and Lucas and their highly advanced warriors took what they needed from the Lensmen and blasted out the worst, left wreckage and atomization.

Organicism is dead, replaced by the atomization and routinization of bodily activity, and the increasing specialization and fragmentation of the objective world of science and culture.