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liquefaction

[ UK /lˌɪkwɪfˈækʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɫɪkwəˈfækʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid

How To Use liquefaction In A Sentence

  • In this process the object remains unaltered and intact; it does not need liquefaction to be experienced.
  • Schweitzer's discussion of coal liquefaction on Thursday just about charmed the pants off Beck, who was particularly struck by Schweitzer's "doggone" terminology and used it half-a-dozen times in the next 5 or 10 minutes. Archive 2005-10-01
  • More Tepco Plans Compensation Payments Companies Vie for Plant-Closing Job Video : Japanese Farmers Forced to Dump Milk Video : Japanese Gym Holds Mud-Covered Memories "They don't see or feel our pain," he said, though adding the city will need all the government and prefectural aid it can get to address the widespread liquefaction damage. Quake Bogs Down a Tokyo Suburb
  • Keep _A_ for comparison, and to _B_ add saliva, and expose both to about 104° F. _A_ is unaffected, while _B_ soon becomes fluid -- within two minutes -- and loses its opalescence; this liquefaction is a process quite antecedent to the saccharifying process which follows. A Practical Physiology
  • In the end it was judged a "poorish liquefaction", Lewis noted, but at least the transformation had eventually taken place. Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
  • It will be readily seen that in the formation of a cryohydrate we have an example of eutexia, since the constituents are present in such proportion as to give to the resultant compound body a minimum temperature of liquefaction. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
  • Liquefaction: conversion of soil into a fluidlike mass during an earthquake or other seismic event. Sound Politics: But he'll try to dig it anyway
  • Papain/urea debriding ointment is indicated for the debridement of necrotic tissue and liquefaction of slough in acute and chronic lesions.
  • The first is black, which is called the Crow's head, because of its extreme blackness, whose crepusculum sheweth the beginning of the action of the fire of nature and solution, and the blackest midnight sheweth the perfection of liquefaction, and confusion of the elements. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
  • For, though fire by heating, both liquefies and rarefies, there are not two powers in fire, one of liquefaction, the other of rarefaction: and fire produces all such actions by its own power of calefaction. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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