intumescence
Americannoun
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a swelling up, as with congestion.
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the state of being swollen.
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a swollen mass.
noun
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pathol a swelling up, as with blood or other fluid
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pathol a swollen organ or part
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chem the swelling of certain substances on heating, often accompanied by the escape of water vapour
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Etymology
Origin of intumescence
From French, dating back to 1650–60; see origin at intumesce, -ence
Example Sentences
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The silicates of lime are moreover frequently characterized by intumescence or ebullition, when heated in the forceps in the blowpipe flame.
In the reduction flame, upon charcoal, it is reduced to the metal with intumescence.
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
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.
Microcosmic salt dissolves the compounds of antimony in the flame of oxidation with intumescence, to a clear light-yellow colored bead, which when cold is colorless.
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