rarefy

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The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarify it.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

As with the pure, uncolour'd flame, The violet's richest blues unite, Do our affections soar to heav'n, And rarify and beam with light.

From Poems by Betham, Matilda

Dense Bodies by Fermentation rarify into several sorts of Air, and this Air by Fermentation, and sometimes without it, returns into dense Bodies.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir