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sublimable, a. Now rare.|səˈblaɪməb(ə)l| [f. sublime v. + -able.] Capable of sublimation or of being sublimated.
1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (1667) 128, I had sub⁓divided the body of Gold into such minute particles that they were sublimable. a1691― Hist. Air (1692) 47, I found the Salt it self to be sublimable. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v., They say that only those things are sublimable, which contain a dry exhalable matter in their original construction. 1869Phillips Vesuv. v. 152 [Ferric oxide] is not known to be sublimable per se. Hence suˈblimableness, the quality of being sublimable.
1661Boyle Scept. Chym. (1680) 391 He soon obtain'd such another Concrete, both as to tast and smell, and easie sublimableness as common Salt Armoniack. |