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Definition of Fuming
1. a. Producing fumes, or vapors.
Definition of Fuming
1. Verb. (present participle of fume) ¹
2. Adjective. that fumes ¹
3. Adjective. very angry ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fuming
1. fume [v] - See also: fume
Medical Definition of Fuming
1.
Producing fumes, or vapors.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuming
Literary usage of Fuming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"Sometimes, during damp weather, the fuming of the paper is attended with unsatisfactory
... The time of fuming the paper depends upon the state of the FIG. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"Moreover they do not constantly show passivity when introduced into fuming nitric
acid, even when visibly coated with the oxide. In my opinion the passive ..."
3. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid by Georg Lunge (1879)
"ALREADY in the first Chapter the fuming oil of vitriol has been described, ...
So long as fuming oil of vitriol was only used for dissolving indigo, ..."
4. Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers: A Practical Text-book by Bertram Blount, Arthur George Bloxam (1905)
"The final product of the process thus consists of fuming sulphuric acid ; by
drying the gases with strong sulphuric acid before they enter the contact ..."
5. A Handbook of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1872)
"... known as red fuming nitric acid. When equal molecules of nitrate of potassa
and sulphuric acid are taken, only one-half of the quantity of nitric acid ..."
6. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"fuming acid (" Nordhausen acid ") was formerly produced in Bohemia by the dry
... When absorbed in oil of vitriol, these vapors produced the fuming acid. ..."
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