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Then, surprise: a secret chamber filled with the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, bright yellow and just starting to deliquesce.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate.

From Time Magazine Archive

And all the substances which this acid unites with crystallize, and do not deliquesce.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

The result was, that a beautiful yellow granular sugar was obtained, from which not a single drop of molasses drained, and it did not deliquesce by exposure to the air.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

The plant at the extreme right has expanded and begun to deliquesce.

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

These creepy sculptures bring to mind George Segal figures in hospital gowns, deliquesced to resemble diseased, screaming versions of George Lucas’s Yoda, a figure with no place in this deranged galaxy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2014

Whereupon the stranger deliquesced and reformed into the personable simulacrum of young Mr. Darcy.

From My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith

For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

The first quantity that I produced immediately deliquesced, upon being exposed to the common air; but if it was exposed in a very dry and warm place, it almost all evaporated, in a white cloud.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

Dr. Moore sent me some preserved in alcohol; it was dried, but soon deliquesced.

From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

That was sitting out there, in a state of just deliquescing.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019

Some have recognizable faces, even painted ones; others appear to be deliquescing into formlessness, their arms and torsos stuck together like tallow.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2018

As we near St. Kilda, the islands look as if they’re deliquescing.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2018

The mood is loosened, people starting to mingle like deliquescing particles.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2017

Alum alone was frequently used by those unaware of its peculiar property of deliquescing in heat as well as in humidity.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne