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Deliquescence   Listen
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Deliquescence  n.  The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Deliquescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... carrying a punch-bowl along our present path, after a journey of eight miles similarly loaded; and whether he would have thought any amount of the 'barley bree' during 'the lee-lang night' a fair recompense for his toils. At length, we arrived at the spot, but in a state of deliquescence and exhaustion not to be described. It is a small farm-establishment, nestling in a bosom of the hills, with some shelter and good exposure, making up for elevation of position, so that its few fields of growing grain, of potatoes, and meadow grass, have a tolerably good appearance. Some patches ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 - Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 • Various

... particles being placed on a leaf, and others of the same size on a slip of glass in a moistened state; both being covered by a bell-glass. This was done to see whether the increased amount of fluid on the leaves could be due to mere deliquescence; but this was proved not to be the case. The particle on the leaf caused so much secretion that in the course of 4 hrs. it ran down across two-thirds of the leaf. After 8 hrs. the leaf, which was concave, was actually filled with very viscid [page 388] fluid; and it particularly ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

... rather singular to observe in the writings of Marinetti, the self-elected leader of the so-called Futurists, the hopeless deliquescence of the form invented by Louis Bertrand in his Gaspard de la Nuit, and developed with almost miraculous results in Baudelaire and terminating with Huysmans, Maeterlinck, and Francis Poictevin ("Paysages"). Rimbaud had intervened. In his Illuminations we read ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker



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