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Meanings of deliquescence in anglès

portuguès
deliquescência
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deliqüescència

Ability of a substance to absorb enough water from the environment to dissolve itself.

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deliqüescència
Usage of deliquescence in anglès
1
People moved slowly if at all, dazed creatures in the depths of a fungal deliquescence.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
2
Is not his flesh in a state of deliquescence?
The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
3
Helpless, boneless, and jelly-like, old age had overtaken her with a mild form of deliquescence.
On the Frontier
4
The oldest was at the limit of its preservation spells, no more than a day from deliquescence.
The bone palace
5
Right now, NASA's favorite explanation is deliquescence, in which the salts grab moisture from Mars' atmosphere to create liquid water.
Wired
6
From two feet away, the phosphorescent glare burned through the dark pool of deliquescence where her left eye had been.
Summer of Night
7
As a matter of fact, the age of adolescence is just as much of a dangerous age as the age of deliquescence.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
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Translations for deliquescence
Deliquescence through the time