The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
Sinônimos
Examples for "swelling"
Examples for "swelling"
1The violence is swelling Somalia's more than 1 million internal refugee population.
2Generation O Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children.
3I'd heard once that elevation was good for injuries that involved swelling.
4Yet even as he rode, he felt himself swelling, growing in power.
5Others stayed, swelling the ranks of Islamic State with mid-level security veterans.
1Before the blowpipe the mineral readily fuses with intumescence to a colourless glass.
2Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.
3If intumescence takes place, the presence of either tartaric acid, molybdic acid, silicic, or tungstic acid, is indicated.
4Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.
5The silicates of lime are moreover frequently characterized by intumescence or ebullition, when heated in the forceps in the blowpipe flame.
Translations for intumescency