Deliquescent [adjective]

Definition of Deliquescent:

fluid, flowing, melting

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Sentence/Example of Deliquescent:

A deliquescent black powder, with a caustic taste, and empyreumatic smell; 10 gr.

White deliquescent substance, and violent poison, readily soluble in water to the acid.

When the mass cools it becomes a yellowish, transparent, glacial substance, tough and deliquescent.

On this account the deliquescent acetates of iron and alumina are more ready to aid the dyeing of cotton than copperas and alum.

It may here be observed, that such an article contains several deliquescent salts, and is much more soluble than pure nitre.

When heated in a tube, oxide of selenium of a carmine red rises along with selenic acid, white and deliquescent.

When specimens are very old and decaying, the interior may become pulverulent or deliquescent.

With the exception of the fluoride, these substances are readily soluble in water and are deliquescent.

The English Maple and the Apple both have a deliquescent stem very early.

The pileus is pitted, deliquescent, six to eight inches high, apex acute.