To melt gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air; as certain salts, acids and alkalies.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
of Deliquesce
Spontaneous liquefaction in the air; a gradual melting or becoming liquid by absorption of water from the atmosphere.
Liquefying in the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as deliquescent salts.
1. Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
2. Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
Liquefaction Roget’s Thesaurus §335
N. liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation|, colliquefaction|, thaw, liquation|, deliquation|, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest
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