deliquescent

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The crystals are deliquescent, very soluble in water, and have an odor like that of garlic.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble’s CD release performance began with “Elf” — an extended composition based around “Isfahan,” the deliquescent Billy Strayhorn ballad — and ended on a bridling, crosshatched rendition of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.”

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2018

Dulwich exhibits Hero and Leandro, painted like those landscape panels in 1985 – their dribbles and fingerworking here orchestrated into a deliquescent collapse of mist-greys and cerise.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whereas calcium chloride, bromide, and iodide are deliquescent solids, the fluoride is practically insoluble in water; this is a parallelism to the soluble silver fluoride, and the insoluble chloride, bromide and iodide.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various