Definition of Hygroscopicity

1. n. The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

Definition of Hygroscopicity

1. Noun. The state of being hygroscopic. ¹

2. Noun. The degree to which a substance is hygroscopic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hygroscopicity

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Medical Definition of Hygroscopicity

1. The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hygroscopicity

hygrophanous
hygrophilous
hygrophobia
hygrophoroid
hygrophthalmic
hygrophyte
hygrophytes
hygrophytic
hygroplasm
hygroscope
hygroscopes
hygroscopic
hygroscopic expansion
hygroscopically
hygroscopicities
hygroscopicity (current term)
hygroscopy
hygrosensation
hygrostat
hygrostatics
hygrostats
hygrostomia
hygrothermal
hygrothermograph
hying
hyke
hykes
hyl-
hyla
hylaeosaurus

Literary usage of Hygroscopicity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Soils, Their Properties and Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin, Harry Oliver Buckman (1915)
"Although for all practical purposes hygroscopicity may be considered as having ... Effect of texture and humus on hygroscopicity. — The question being thus ..."

2. Soils, Their Properties and Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin, Harry Oliver Buckman (1915)
"Although for all practical purposes hygroscopicity may be considered as having ... Effect of texture and humus on hygroscopicity. — The question being thus ..."

3. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"hygroscopicity of Cellulose Nitrates. This phenomenon is undoubtedly intimately ... and therefore the hygroscopicity would appear to be a function of the ..."

4. A Manual of Practical Hygiene for Students, Physicians, and Health Officers by Charles Harrington (1914)
"But the fabrics made of the best conductors are commonly very closely woven, and of wool are of varying degrees of looseness. hygroscopicity. ..."

5. Cellulose, Cellulose Products, and Artificial Rubber: Comprising the by Josef Bersch (1904)
"... made numerous investigations as regards the moisture and hygroscopicity of artificial silks, as well as the products themselves in general, ..."

6. Schlich's Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1908)
"The hygroscopicity of a wood is its reaction to water and water-vapour. If absolutely dry wood is placed in contact with air saturated with water-vapour, ..."

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