intumescence
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The silicates of lime are moreover frequently characterized by intumescence or ebullition, when heated in the forceps in the blowpipe flame.
However, I may tell you that the bird is simous; yblent in the sunlight, but withal strenuous-eyed; its blood inclined to intumescence.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
Tin-oxides combine with carbonate of soda, in the flame of oxidation upon platinum wire, with intumescence to a bulky and confused mass, which is insoluble in more soda.
Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.
Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea.
From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Jules Verne