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Definition of Deliquesces
1. deliquesce [v] - See also: deliquesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliquesces
Literary usage of Deliquesces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"It deliquesces on exposure to the air. On boiling the solution with excess of
molybdic trióxido, the liquid becomes turbid, ..."
2. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"The Chloride requires to be kept in well-stoppered bottles, as it rapidly
deliquesces on exposure to the air. Dose, gr. \—gr. j or gr. ij, largely diluted. ..."
3. First Outlines of a Dictionary of Solubilities of Chemical Substances by Frank Humphreys Storer (1864)
"deliquesces in very damp air. Sol- C„ n, K, o„ üble in water. II.) acid. Soluble in
88 © 90 pts. of water at C, ..."
4. Therapeutical handbook of the United States pharmacopoeia by Robert Thaxter Edes (1882)
"Ferric chloride absorbs water from the air and deliquesces, and may thus be
directly applied in full strength to the bleeding surface, or a solution of five ..."
5. A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies by Thomas Thomson (1831)
"deliquesces in the air, fuses below a red heat into a yellow liquid, ...
When evaporated, it leaves a gummy matter which speedily deliquesces, ..."
6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"The neutral caesium salt deliquesces, and passes the filter, ... Gmelin mentions
that " according to earlier statements it deliquesces in moist air. ..."
7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1851)
"Ferric chloride deliquesces rapidly in the air, then crystallizes in the form of
this salt, and afterwards deliquesces much less quickly. ..."
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