fusibility
Americannoun
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the quality of being fusible or convertible from a solid to a liquid state by heat.
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the degree to which a substance is fusible.
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Etymology
Origin of fusibility
From the French word fusibilité, dating back to 1615–25. See fusible, -ity
Example Sentences
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It is more satisfactory to separate the chloride, which may be recognised by its taste, flame coloration, fusibility, and negative action with reagents.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
It can only be said that these impurities, as far as we are aware, increase the fusibility of iron, and that in an oxidizing flame oxidation becomes more excessive as the point of fusion approaches.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Stahl taught that one essential property of an earth was fusibility by fire, with production of a substance more or less like glass.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
But in the concept of gold color, lustre, malleability, hardness, solubility, fusibility, specific gravity, atomic weight, and all other qualities of gold, must be apprehended as clearly as possible.
From Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher
This is a preparation which I made for the purpose of proving the fusibility of platinum in a common candle.
From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes
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