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liquefaction

[lik-wuh-fak-shuhn] / ˌlɪk wəˈfæk ʃən /




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Liquefaction facilities, meanwhile, are highly specialized engineering megaprojects that take years to construct and significantly longer to repair than conventional oil fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Liquefaction occurs when shaking from an earthquake effectively turns the land into quicksand.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

Dominating that cyborg skyline is the tower flare at the Corpus Christi Liquefaction facility, owned by gas giant Cheniere.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2023

Liquefaction also creates sand volcanoes, cone-shaped features created when liquefied sand is squirted through an overlying and usually finer-grained layer.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Research on the Liquefaction of Helium.—A research in advanced experimental physics upon the newly discovered element helium.—1 illustration.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various




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