intumescence
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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 Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
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
Carbonate of Soda dissolves it upon platinum wire in the oxidation flame with intumescence, to a clear bead, which appears milk-white after cooling.
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 Verne, Jules
If intumescence takes place, the presence of either tartaric acid, molybdic acid, silicic, or tungstic acid, is indicated.