Definition of Semidrying

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semidrying

semidirect leads
semidiscrete
semiditone
semiditones
semidiurnal
semidivine
semidocumentaries
semidocumentary
semidome
semidomed
semidomes
semidomestic
semidominant
semidouble
semidry
semidrying (current term)
semiduals
semiduplex
semidurable
semidwarf
semidwarfs
semidwarves
semie
semiellipse
semiellipses
semielliptic
semielliptical
semiempirical
semiepiphyte
semierect

Literary usage of Semidrying

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

1. Animal and Vegetable Fixed Oils, Fats, Butters, and Waxes: Their Preparation by Charles Romley Alder Wright (1894)
"... judging from their general physical characters they are, as a rule, either nondrying oils of the olive class, or semidrying oils of the cotton seed type ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"... fifteen minutes for non-drying fats and oils, thirty minutes for semidrying oils, and one hour for drying oils. The following table showing results ..."

3. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1912)
"Drying " oils show high iodine absorption ; " non-drying " oils, low ; " semidrying " oils, intermediate. In Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis the solid ..."

4. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"... (2) semidrying oils such as cottonseed oil, (3) non-drying oils such as olive oil. 3. Essential oils. Volatile, generally odoriferous, oil substances of ..."

5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"... per cent .36-11.8 Saponification value 102-210 Iodine value 98-110 This oil belongs to the class of semidrying oils. It is employed in the manufacture ..."

6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"... value 192-210 Iodine value 98-110 This oil belongs to the class of semidrying oils. It is employed in the manufacture of soaps and candles and also as ..."

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