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Definition of Melting point
1. Noun. The temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid.
Definition of Melting point
1. Noun. (chemistry) The temperature at which the solid and liquid phases of a substance are in equilibrium; it is relatively insensitive to changes in pressure ¹
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Medical Definition of Melting point
1. The temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid, the temperature at which 50% of a macromolecule becomes denatured. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melting Point
Literary usage of Melting point
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Melting-point 25°-26° C. Action of Chlorine upon the Iodides of Pyridine. ...
Melting-point 132° C. Pictet and Kraft. 1 This Journa 8 This Journa 6 This ..."
2. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"If we take a quantity of ice below the melting point ... Indeed, on the constancy
of this melting point depends our system of graduating thermometers. ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"An illustration shows the apparatus which was used Hv using warm water instead
of the free/ing mixture, the melting-point was determined and taken at the ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"No different conclusion can be reached, as there is nothing in the record which
gives anj countenance to the theory that the melting- point of tin 450° Fah. ..."
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