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Definition of Opalescing
1. opalesce [v] - See also: opalesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opalescing
Literary usage of Opalescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on pharmacy by Edward Parrish, Thomas S. Wiegand (1884)
"... separate a l>ody opalescing in blue, an alkali is added, taking care not to
produce a pulverulent precipitate, a- long as the precipitate appears oily ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1883)
"In many cases, the further addition of a drop of diluted alcohol is sufficient
to render the opalescing mixture milky-white. If the opalescence, at the ..."
3. Manual of Mineralogy and Geology by Ebenezer Emmons (1832)
"Occasionally there appears in the interior an opalescing bluish-white light, if
viewed in the direction perpendicular to the shorter diagonal of the primary ..."
4. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"present in opalescing drops, is changed into a red coloring matter by means of
an autumnal abundant formation of acid, a reddening and yellowing of the ..."
5. An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy: Comprising Some by William Phillips (1823)
"... or brownish tinge, and occasionally shews an opalescing bluish white light
internally. The primary form of its crystal is a right rectangular prism. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its by James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit (1862)
"... giving off some bubbles; borax dissolves to a clear glass ; slowly soluble in
mic. salt, leaving a skeleton of silica, and opalescing on cooling. ..."
7. Spons' Mechanics' Own Book: A Manual for Handicraftsmen and Amateurs by Spon (1901)
"... medium employed was potash silicate, thoroughly saturated with silica, in
combination with sufficient sodio silicate to prevent it from opalescing. ..."
8. Pyrology: Or Fire Chemistry; a Science Interesting to the General by William Alexander Ross (1875)
"(7) K2C03 fused in small quantity with (6) dissolves all fragments rapidly, but
balls slowly to a glass, clear hot, but opalescing white on cooling. ..."
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