Значения для термина "rarefy the air" отсутствуют.
1 But as such means are not at disposal, it becomes necessary to place the terminal in a bulb and rarefy the air in the same.
2 The girl felt light-headed and giddy as though the rush above had rarefied the air under the cliffs.
3 Simply this: The hot wire rarefied the air in contact with it, but it did not equally lighten the floating matter.
4 For example, I know that the heat of the sun during the day rarefies the air over the land, and so causes the wind.
5 The first will represent the ocean, and the latter an island made hot by the rays of the sun, and rarefying the air above it.
6 This signifies that the comet, breathing fire and smoke, so rarefied the air that the clouds disappeared and there followed an age of awful heat.
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