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Liquefy   /lˈɪkwəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Liquefy

verb
(past & past part. liquefied; pres. part. liquefying)
1.
Become liquid.
2.
Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating.  Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify.
3.
Become liquid or fluid when heated.  Synonyms: flux, liquify.






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"Liquefy" Quotes from Famous Books



... then rode The Count, inflamed with wrath, Where, in his iron foundry, glowed The ore, and bubbled forth. The workmen here, with busy hand, The fire both late and early fanned. The sparks fly out, the bellows ply, As if the rock to liquefy. ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... sulphur is almost impossible to liquefy. Unlike metals, it congeals again when it has been heated beyond the proper temperature. Also it corrodes any metal it touches, so that a pipe would be eaten ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post

... stannous oxide to cool nitric acid of sp. gr. 1.20, as long as solution occurred, and then cooling the solution to -20 deg., Weber obtained an abundance of crystals of the composition Sn(NO{3}){2} 20H{2}O. They resemble crystals of potassium chlorate. They cannot be kept, as they liquefy at ordinary temperatures. An insoluble basic salt was obtained by digesting an excess of moist stannous oxide in solution of stannous nitrate, or by adding to a solution of stannous nitrate by degrees, with constant stirring, a quantity of sodium carbonate solution insufficient ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 • Various

... the Duke severely, "the discoveries of modern science tend to the chimerical rather than the practical. Your modern scientists can liquefy oxygen, they can light a city with electricity, but they cannot give me anything to increase the size and succulence of my turnips. Virgil knew as much about agriculture as ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon

... life. The interior is solid or at least acts as a solid, because the materials, though at high temperatures, are under stupendous pressures. If the pressures were removed the deep-lying materials would quickly liquefy, and probably ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86



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