Meanings of deliquescent in English

And the Major knew, for his principal experience had been with a deliquescent society.

At last he realized it was the birds Orion had shot, deliquescent in the saddlebag.

The product was a transparent glass, slightly deliquescent in the air; it was ground to powder under edge-stones.

Acetamide, CH3.CONH2, is a white deliquescent crystalline solid, which melts at 82-83 deg.

The product was a transparent glass, slightly deliquescent in the air, which was ground to a powder under edge-stones.

Some of them have a strong affinity for water, or are deliquescent, and consequently absorb it greedily from the air.

I feel like a good-for-nothing, a cow, damned, antique, deliquescent, in short calm and moderate, which is the last term in decadence.

Or perhaps it's that same paradox again: the history that happens underneath our noses ought to be the clearest, and yet it's the most deliquescent.

It is principally used as a manure and in the manufacture of nitric acid: owing to its deliquescent property it will not serve for gunpowder.

The nitrate, Al(NO3)3, is obtained as deliquescent crystals (with 8H2O) by evaporating a solution of the hydroxide in nitric acid.

And the Major knew, for his principal experience had been with a deliquescent society.

At last he realized it was the birds Orion had shot, deliquescent in the saddlebag.

The product was a transparent glass, slightly deliquescent in the air; it was ground to powder under edge-stones.

Acetamide, CH3.CONH2, is a white deliquescent crystalline solid, which melts at 82-83 deg.

The product was a transparent glass, slightly deliquescent in the air, which was ground to a powder under edge-stones.

Some of them have a strong affinity for water, or are deliquescent, and consequently absorb it greedily from the air.