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.)
In the flame of reduction, and upon charcoal, it is reduced with intumescence to metallic lead, which is volatilized by a continued blast, and sublimates on charcoal, as mentioned above.
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
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
Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.