deliquescence

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The movement is peak McGregor: Bodies curving and winding, morphing between defined shapes and liquid deliquescence; legs extending with gasp-inducing flexibility.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2023

If this is related to deliquescence from the atmosphere, we should see a difference in brightness and darkness, with time of day.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2017

The process, known as deliquescence, is seen in the Atacama desert, where the resulting damp patches are the only known place for microbes to live.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2015

It was an industry in a state of deliquescence, and Varda saw rightly that, if Hollywood were to become solid again, it would do so in open acknowledgment of and confrontation with its own past.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2015

This genus can be readily recognized from the black spores and from the deliquescence of the gills and cap into an inky substance.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha