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sublimation

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In some of these cold traps, the sublimation of CO2 ice slows to a crawl—at most a few centimeters of depth lost every billion years.

These embedded materials will eventually begin to release back into the air through sublimation and evaporation.

Worse, their water could go straight from frozen to evaporated, a process known as sublimation.

The conversation about happiness is from episode three, and the sublimation question is from episode four.

So I don’t know enough about sublimation to say whether what I do daily is an act of sublimation.

And that treatise of Van de Water, the Belgian, on the sublimation of the sub-conscious by the negation of the self-censor.

Personal experience, they say, means more to them than theory, even though the theory be the sublimation of all experience.

The sublimation having been carried to a sufficient extent, the fires are allowed to die out.

The residuum consists of a violet-coloured powder, which, by sublimation, is converted into cinnabar.

It is then refined by a second sublimation, and melted into the masses in which it is commonly sold.

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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sublimation, such as: conversion, defense, defense reaction, repression, suppression, and symbolization.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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