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.
Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 by Various
The oxide is reduced with intumescence to the metallic state, and the bead becomes clear again.
Perhaps his admirers may answer, that my remark is but the ramification of envy, the intumescence of ill-nature, the exacerbation of 'gloomy malignity.'
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.