Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Liquefaction by absorption of moisture from the atmosphere (a property of certain salts and other bodies); a melting away or dissolving.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The condition of being deliquescent
  • noun The action of deliquescing

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Examples

  • Researchers found the most common types of vitamin C used in vitamin supplements and other fortified products are prone to a process called deliquescence, in which humidity causes a water-soluble substance to dissolve.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Researchers found the most common types of vitamin C used in vitamin supplements and other fortified products are prone to a process called deliquescence, in which humidity causes a water-soluble substance to dissolve.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Here Cheng pushes her art well beyond the iconography and artifacts of visually identifiable religions, and she does so with a lyrical deliquescence of the specific signage of faiths into swirling, largely abstract but also organic mandalas that approach the painted frenzy and metaphysical idealism, if not the visual and compositional dissonance, of Kandinsky.

    G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Here Cheng pushes her art well beyond the iconography and artifacts of visually identifiable religions, and she does so with a lyrical deliquescence of the specific signage of faiths into swirling, largely abstract but also organic mandalas that approach the painted frenzy and metaphysical idealism, if not the visual and compositional dissonance, of Kandinsky.

    G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011

  • The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence.

    At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011

  • Here Cheng pushes her art well beyond the iconography and artifacts of visually identifiable religions, and she does so with a lyrical deliquescence of the specific signage of faiths into swirling, largely abstract but also organic mandalas that approach the painted frenzy and metaphysical idealism, if not the visual and compositional dissonance, of Kandinsky.

    G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Here Cheng pushes her art well beyond the iconography and artifacts of visually identifiable religions, and she does so with a lyrical deliquescence of the specific signage of faiths into swirling, largely abstract but also organic mandalas that approach the painted frenzy and metaphysical idealism, if not the visual and compositional dissonance, of Kandinsky.

    G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Here Cheng pushes her art well beyond the iconography and artifacts of visually identifiable religions, and she does so with a lyrical deliquescence of the specific signage of faiths into swirling, largely abstract but also organic mandalas that approach the painted frenzy and metaphysical idealism, if not the visual and compositional dissonance, of Kandinsky.

    G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Interesting although the actual timing of deliquescence does vary considerably!

    Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010

  • It's hard to play total psychic deliquescence, but Turner does just that.

    Unhappy In Their Own Way 2008

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