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Significats de intumescency en anglès

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The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

        inflor
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        Examples for "swelling"
        Examples for "swelling"
        1
        The violence is swelling Somalia's more than 1 million internal refugee population.
        Reuters
        2
        Generation O Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children.
        Wired
        3
        I'd heard once that elevation was good for injuries that involved swelling.
        Notes from the dog
        4
        Yet even as he rode, he felt himself swelling, growing in power.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
        5
        Others stayed, swelling the ranks of Islamic State with mid-level security veterans.
        Reuters
        1
        Before the blowpipe the mineral readily fuses with intumescence to a colourless glass.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        2
        Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.
        A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B...
        3
        If intumescence takes place, the presence of either tartaric acid, molybdic acid, silicic, or tungstic acid, is indicated.
        A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B...
        4
        Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
        5
        The silicates of lime are moreover frequently characterized by intumescence or ebullition, when heated in the forceps in the blowpipe flame.
        A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B...
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