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Deliquescent

Deliquescent Meaning & Definition
Deliquescent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Deliquescent?

[adj] (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

Synonyms | Synonyms for Deliquescent: hydrophilic

Related Terms | Find terms related to Deliquescent: contractive | declining | decoagulated | decreasing | decrescendo | decrescent | diminishing | diminuendo | dwindling | in solution | in suspension | languishing | lessening | liquefied | liquescent | melted | molten | on the wane | reductive | subsiding | thawed | unclotted | waning

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Deliquescent In Webster's Dictionary

\Del`i*ques"cent\, a. [L. deliquescens, -entis, p. pr. of deliquescere: cf. F. d['e]liquescent.] 1. Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts. 2. (Bot.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. --Gray.

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