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单词 deliquescent
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Definition of deliquescent in English:

deliquescent

adjective 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. 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.

Derivatives

  • deliquescence

  • noun ˌdɛlɪˈkwɛs(ə)nsˌdɛləˈkwɛsns
    • The end of anthesis is marked by perigon deliquescence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An extended communal deliquescence into the same subway sludge from which the torment arose.
      • Aids may not have specific symptoms, but Ebola most certainly does - a short incubation period followed by massive collapse and eventual deliquescence of the internal organs.
      • First, through their deliquescence of the tissue, they create a physically hospitable environment for larvae and adults.
      • He had slushy ferric salts succumbing to their own deliquescence.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin deliquescent- 'dissolving', from the verb deliquescere (see deliquesce).

Definition of deliquescent in US English:

deliquescent

adjectiveˌdeləˈkwes(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. 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.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Latin deliquescent- ‘dissolving’, from the verb deliquescere (see deliquesce).

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