Definition of Opalescing

1. Verb. (present participle of opalesce) ¹

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Definition of Opalescing

1. opalesce [v] - See also: opalesce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opalescing

opake
opal
opal codon
opal mutation
opal suppressor
opaled
opalesce
opalesced
opalescence
opalescences
opalescent
opalescent dentin
opalescently
opalesces
opalescing (current term)
opaline
opaline patch
opalines
opalise
opalised
opalises
opalising
opalize
opalized
opalizes
opalizing
opalotype
opalotypes
opals

Literary usage of Opalescing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on pharmacy by Edward Parrish, Thomas S. Wiegand (1884)
"... separate a l>ody opalescing in blue, an alkali is added, taking care not to produce a pulverulent precipitate, a- long as the precipitate appears oily ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1883)
"In many cases, the further addition of a drop of diluted alcohol is sufficient to render the opalescing mixture milky-white. If the opalescence, at the ..."

3. Manual of Mineralogy and Geology by Ebenezer Emmons (1832)
"Occasionally there appears in the interior an opalescing bluish-white light, if viewed in the direction perpendicular to the shorter diagonal of the primary ..."

4. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"present in opalescing drops, is changed into a red coloring matter by means of an autumnal abundant formation of acid, a reddening and yellowing of the ..."

5. An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy: Comprising Some by William Phillips (1823)
"... or brownish tinge, and occasionally shews an opalescing bluish white light internally. The primary form of its crystal is a right rectangular prism. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its by James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit (1862)
"... giving off some bubbles; borax dissolves to a clear glass ; slowly soluble in mic. salt, leaving a skeleton of silica, and opalescing on cooling. ..."

7. Spons' Mechanics' Own Book: A Manual for Handicraftsmen and Amateurs by Spon (1901)
"... medium employed was potash silicate, thoroughly saturated with silica, in combination with sufficient sodio silicate to prevent it from opalescing. ..."

8. Pyrology: Or Fire Chemistry; a Science Interesting to the General by William Alexander Ross (1875)
"(7) K2C03 fused in small quantity with (6) dissolves all fragments rapidly, but balls slowly to a glass, clear hot, but opalescing white on cooling. ..."

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