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† diˈfflation Obs.
[n. of action f. L. difflāre, difflāt-: see prec. Cf. obs. F. difflation Cotgr.]
Blowing asunder, or dispersing by blowing.
1568G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 18 Purgation is perfitit..be..fasting, and difflatioun. 1574Newton Health Mag. 76 Convenient refrigeration and difflation of vapoures. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 301 Hindering the difflation and dissipation of vaporous fumes.
b. In early Chemistry: see quot. 1706.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 247 A substance scarce capable of diflation or blowing away. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) Difflation..a Term us'd by some Chymists, when Spirits raised by heat, are blown with a kind of Bellows, into the opposite Camera or Arch of the Furnace, and there found congealed. 1763W. Lewis Commerc. Phil. Techn. 211 Difflation of the antimonial metal. |