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Definition of deliquescent in English: deliquescentadjective ˌdɛlɪˈkwɛs(ə)nt 1Becoming liquid, or having a tendency to become liquid. 易潮解的,潮解的 Example sentencesExamples - Remember that there may technically be stronger drinks in the desert, but since ethanol is deliquescent, any such drinks would absorb water from the air to remain at most 96% by volume alcohol.
- We have the technology so let's use it to ‘ring up’ our fridge and spot the deliquescent cucumber tucked away behind that banana yoghurt no one likes.
- Like a funeral, an epilogue mitigates an annihilating ending with deliquescent anticlimax.
- That said, his third solo exhibition at Kasmin featured 10 roiling, deliquescent abstractions that refer less to nature than to the mediated status of its representation.
- This was no deliquescent cucumber or a yoghurt dangerously beyond its sell-by date.
- Like bookends to the main event, he added orderly and totemic panels of more intimate scale, frosted over by a deliquescent rust applied like wash to gatherings of yet more lost things.
- We marvel at the exquisite tracery of a leaf, the play of light against the bark of a tree, the reflections and ripples in a puddle of water, the deliquescent radiance of a human eye.
- 1.1Chemistry (of a solid) tending to absorb moisture from the air and dissolve in it.
〔化〕(固体)(易)潮解的 Example sentencesExamples - Potassium carbonate is deliquescent, which means that it will absorb water from the air.
- The aqueous-phase chemistry of deliquescent sea-salt aerosols in the remote marine boundary layer is investigated with a steady state box model.
- The number of particles is independent of the deliquescent state at which they are measured.
OriginLate 18th century: from Latin deliquescent- 'dissolving', from the verb deliquescere (see deliquesce). Definition of deliquescent in US English: deliquescentadjectiveˌdeləˈkwes(ə)ntˌdɛləˈkwɛs(ə)nt 1Becoming liquid, or having a tendency to become liquid. 易潮解的,潮解的 Example sentencesExamples - Like bookends to the main event, he added orderly and totemic panels of more intimate scale, frosted over by a deliquescent rust applied like wash to gatherings of yet more lost things.
- We marvel at the exquisite tracery of a leaf, the play of light against the bark of a tree, the reflections and ripples in a puddle of water, the deliquescent radiance of a human eye.
- We have the technology so let's use it to ‘ring up’ our fridge and spot the deliquescent cucumber tucked away behind that banana yoghurt no one likes.
- That said, his third solo exhibition at Kasmin featured 10 roiling, deliquescent abstractions that refer less to nature than to the mediated status of its representation.
- Like a funeral, an epilogue mitigates an annihilating ending with deliquescent anticlimax.
- Remember that there may technically be stronger drinks in the desert, but since ethanol is deliquescent, any such drinks would absorb water from the air to remain at most 96% by volume alcohol.
- This was no deliquescent cucumber or a yoghurt dangerously beyond its sell-by date.
- 1.1Chemistry (of a solid) tending to absorb moisture from the air and dissolve in it.
〔化〕(固体)(易)潮解的 Example sentencesExamples - The number of particles is independent of the deliquescent state at which they are measured.
- Potassium carbonate is deliquescent, which means that it will absorb water from the air.
- The aqueous-phase chemistry of deliquescent sea-salt aerosols in the remote marine boundary layer is investigated with a steady state box model.
OriginLate 18th century: from Latin deliquescent- ‘dissolving’, from the verb deliquescere (see deliquesce). |