Lexicographical Neighbors of Intumescing
Literary usage of Intumescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1827)
"... for, if the first presents natural fissures, its property of intumescing
destroys their bad effect ; and even in this coal, the solutions of continuity, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... have been great intumescing masses which on cooling have resolved themselves
into various stages of crystallization, and that their varying products ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... although it differs from previously described occurrences of this mineral in
intumescing strongly before the blowpipe. The n's are a = i .561, ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1920)
"which has been cooled by water, whilst the external layers only contain the
non-intumescing variety. When intumescence takes place oxides of nitrogen and a ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries: Including by James Dwight Dana (1854)
"BB easily fusible, intumescing and forming a dark grayish-green globule, which
is not magnetic. 11. Ar en dal j 42-45 22-47 6*27 13-43 6-53=100-44, Wacht. ..."
6. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"Mercury thiocyanate has the property of intumescing when decomposed by heat ("
Pharaoh's serpents ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... though in some respects unlike, have the common characteristic of melting and
intumescing in the flame of the blowpipe. They consist chiefly of silica, ..."
8. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"... but at an advanced state of the evaporation, decomposition set« in, even at
the temperature of the water-bath, the residue intumescing strongly, ..."
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