Liquefaction
[,lɪkwɪ'fækʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
(n.) The state of being liquid.
(n.) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Melting, dissolving, thawing, fusion, dissolution.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MELT]
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Examples
- In January of 1884, Wroblewski confirmed the liquefaction of hydrogen, which had been imperfectly accomplished by Cailletet before. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If a gas is cooled and compressed at the same time, liquefaction occurs much more surely and easily than though either factor alone were depended upon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the liquefaction of oxygen and nitrogen, the principal component gases of air, the liquefaction of air itself followed immediately as a matter of course. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1843 Aime experimented with the liquefaction of gases by sinking them in suitable vessels to great depths in the ocean. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1834 Thilorier made extensive experiments and demonstrations in the liquefaction of carbonic acid gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The liquefaction of gases has engaged the attention of the scientist almost from the beginning of the century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Liquefaction of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Air by Pictet and Cailletet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Liquefaction of air was attempted as early as 1823 by Perkins, and again in 1828 by Colladon, but it was not accomplished until 1877. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This dispenses with auxiliary refrigerants, and causes the expanding gases to supply the cold required for their own liquefaction by an entirely mechanical process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In this year the liquefaction of oxygen, by Pictet, of Geneva, and Cailletet, of Chatillon-sur-Seine, was independently accomplished. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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