deliquescent

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The crystals are deliquescent, very soluble in water, and have an odor like that of garlic.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble’s CD release performance began with “Elf” — an extended composition based around “Isfahan,” the deliquescent Billy Strayhorn ballad — and ended on a bridling, crosshatched rendition of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.”

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2018

Dulwich exhibits Hero and Leandro, painted like those landscape panels in 1985 – their dribbles and fingerworking here orchestrated into a deliquescent collapse of mist-greys and cerise.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

In grade, the Gillette coal is a sub-bituminous kind called black lignite�tough, deliquescent, easily crumbled when exposed to air, when it also tends to combust spontaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

Calcium iodide and bromide are white deliquescent solids and closely resemble the chloride.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various