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Lactescence   Listen
noun
Lactescence  n.  
1.
The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. "This lactescence does commonly ensue when... fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution."
2.
(Bot.) The latex of certain plants. See Latex.





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"Lactescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fair Water be struck down into that Snow-white Powder, which when the adhering Saltness is well wash'd off, Chymists are pleas'd to call Mercurius Vitae, though the like Powder may be made of Antimony, without the addition of any Mercury at all. And this Lactescence if I may so call it, does also commonly ensue when Spirit of Wine, being Impregnated with those parts of Gums or other Vegetable Concretions, that are suppos'd to abound with Sulphureous Corpuscles, fair ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle


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