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deliquescence|dɛlɪˈkwɛsəns|
[f. deliquescent: see -ence. (So mod.F. 1792 in Hatzf.)]
The process of deliquescing or melting away; esp. the melting or liquefying of a salt by absorption of moisture from the air.
1800Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 118 This change is termed deliquescence. 1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 503/2 The nucleated cells..gradually disappear by a kind of solution or deliquescence. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 259 The English..hurry to the seaside with red, perspiring faces, in a state of combustion and deliquescence.
fig.1881Spectator 19 Mar. 373 The deliquescence..of beliefs.
b. concr. The liquid or solution resulting from this process.
1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 148 This deliquescence or solution always has an acrid taste. 1860O. W. Holmes Poems, De Sauty, Drops of deliquescence glistened on his forehead. |