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Definition of Liquify

1. Verb. Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating. "Liquefy the silver"

2. Verb. Become liquid or fluid when heated. "The frozen fat liquefied"

Definition of Liquify

1. Verb. To make liquid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Liquify

1. to liquefy [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: liquefy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liquify

liquidizes liquidizing liquidless liquidlike liquidly liquidness liquidnesses liquids liquidus liquidy

liquifiable liquified liquified natural gas liquifies liquifilm liquify (current term) liquifying liquor liquor amnii liquor cerebrospinalis

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Literary usage of Liquify

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

1. Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern edited by Howard Monroe Raymond (1904)
"... and which combined effect causes the gas to liquify and flow from the bottom pipe of the condenser through the pipe H to the receiver or storage tank I. ..."

2. Inorganic Coal and Limestone in an Electro-chemical World by Titus Salter Emery (1888)
"... acid at ordinary temperatures at the pressure of one atmosphere ; at a temperature of 32° the pressure of 36 atmospheres will liquify carbonic acid gas. ..."

3. The Art of French Cookery by Antoine B. Beauvilliers (1827)
"... a little salt, orange flowers, and six yolks of eggs ; liquify with three quarters of a pint of milk; three quarters of an hour before serving them, ..."

4. Is the Copernican System of Astronomy True? by W. S. Cassedy (1888)
"It is also a fact that, "When the mass of gas is so far "contracted that it begins to solidify or liquify this action "ceases to hold, ..."

5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1854)
"That the celestial spaces supply as much as would liquify 85 feet thick. ... That the heat evolved on the surface of the sun in a day would liquify a shell ..."

6. A Textbook of inorganic chemistry by Richard Ernst Wilhelm Sommer (1906)
"Another example is water-steam at 110° C., which, if sufficient pressure be applied and the temperature kept at 110° C., will liquify. 2. ..."

7. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1854)
"That the celestial spaces supply as much as would liquify 85 feet thick. ... That the heat evolved on the surface of the sun in a day would, liquify a shell ..."

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