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Sound Transit says contractor Kiewit now needs to engineer special foundations, so that trackway columns will support girders and trains despite the liquefiable soil.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022

“They built it on liquefiable lands ... but they never called us,” Parrish said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Fifteen per cent of Seattle is built on liquefiable land, including seventeen day-care centers and the homes of some thirty-four thousand five hundred people.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

The study of the effects of pressure and temperature on many gases led to the introduction of the term “permanent gases” to denote gases which were apparently not liquefiable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Such media should be referred to as liquefiable media; in point of fact, however, they are usually grouped together with the solid media.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)