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Definition of Deliquescent
1. Adjective. (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.
Definition of Deliquescent
1. a. Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
Definition of Deliquescent
1. Adjective. (chemistry) absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deliquescent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Deliquescent
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1. Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliquescent
Literary usage of Deliquescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"deliquescent; easily sol. in HiO or alcohol; insol. in ether. ... Less deliquescent
than the cerium s»lu (Marignac.) + 10}3H|0. deliquescent. (Cleve, Bufl. ..."
2. First Outlines of a Dictionary of Solubilities of Chemical Substances by Frank Humphreys Storer (1864)
"deliquescent. Soluble in water, the solution being easily decomposed by ...
deliquescent. Easily Co Br soluble in water. Also soluble in alcohol, und ether. ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1856)
"Bright red, soft, salt to the taste and deliquescent, containing much ...
Bright red, very solt and moist, salt and very deliquescent, contains a very large ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1888)
"Remington has spoken to me about, and that is the getting rid of the deliquescent
condition of the salt. It is known that a large majority of these sails ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"The potassium- and sodium-salts, obtained by precipitating the barium-salt with
the corresponding sulphates, are deliquescent and difficult to crystallise. ..."
6. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1866)
"... and deliquescent Stems. Sometimes the primary axis is prolonged without
interruption, by the continued evolution of a terminal bud, even through the ..."
7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"Red, deliquescent, soluble in alcohol. (Wollaston. ... Light brown, deliquescent
prisma, soluble in alcohol. (Bonsdorff.) PALLADIUM AND MAGNESIUM. ..."
8. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1817)
"Method of preserving Volatile and deliquescent Substances. By Dr. Dewar, FRSEdin.
(To Dr. Thomson.) SIR, Edinburgh, May\\, 1817. ..."
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