intumescence
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In the reduction flame, upon charcoal, it is reduced to the metal with intumescence.
Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.
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
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.
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
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