deliquescence

Its name is from the Greek for quick water, in reference to its ready deliquescence.

Ultimately it can even envision death as a waxlike deliquescence: The ending would seem perfect.

So what we need now is in-built bio-degradable deliquescence in ephemera.'

Death becomes it well: its subject matter is ageing and death, desuetude and deliquescence.

These changes include: glassy to rubbery transitions, amorphous to crystalline conversions, and sample deliquescence.

Serrated, very broad; initially creamy white in color, then darkens to grey then black with the onset of deliquescence.

It is a delicate and short-lived fungus, the fruit bodies lasting only a few hours before dissolving into a black ink - a process called deliquescence.

It is a white solid that can absorb enough moisture from the air to dissolve in it, forming a solution; this property is known as deliquescence.

Eccentric Deliquescence was released in 2008 as a CD and limited edition 5.1 surround sound DVD.

And we needn't look much farther than the TV series "Growing Up Gotti" for signs of accelerated deliquescence.

A few hours after collection, the gills will begin to slowly dissolve into a black, inky, spore-laden liquid-an enzymatic process called autodigestion or deliquescence.

I had the goat's cheese (£8), baked to an attractive deliquescence; it had a lactic, subtle taste, which was delicious against a zingy salad.

And in "The Skewer," an admittedly demented art critic complains, "It is precisely this atmosphere of tenebrous deliquescence which sounds within me the thanatoptic chord."

Several characters serve to help distinguish Parasola auricoma from similar coprinoid mushrooms that grow in woodchips, including a lack of deliquescence, and the lack of a veil.

(2003) 'Landscapes of deliquescence in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 19 (2), pp.

She had; it wasn't a fast fade-out or the twinkling deliquescence so favored by beginning cinematography students, but a genuine popper which usually happened by way of a real-time equipment failure or power-out.

While lightweight dehydrated foods exist, water-powder is scientifically implausible (though see deliquescence), but together these serve to explain how the hero can carry enough food and drink to survive his journey in the inhospitable Night Land.

Zinc chloride and calcium chloride, as well as potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide (and many different salts), are so hygroscopic that they readily dissolve in the water they absorb: this property is called deliquescence.

The hands slid beneath my hips and raised me, and I relaxed into deliquescence as the tiny shudder grew and spread, rising in seconds to a fulfillment that left me limp and gasping, Jamie's head resting on my thigh.

Something milder and more amiable may be made out of the deliquescence of theology, and the mixture of the creed with everything that contradicts it; but among consistent cosmic creeds, this is the only one that is entirely on the side of Life.

"A gulfy deliquescence of deranged and harnessed air" A volcano of the invisible, darkly construed" - To the pleasure faithers with tiktok affections, it was the sound of clockworks uncoiling their springs and running down at a terrible speed.

Tenebrous deliquescence is, in fact, Mr. McGrath's reigning mode, and while his publishers insist that he's "a Poe for the '80s," his deliriously Latinate locutions sound more often like an H. P. Lovecraft satire, with pinches of Ambrose Bierce sprinkled about like pepper.

Kissinger now argues, in the long-delayed third volume of his memoirs, Years of Renewal, that he was prevented and distracted, by Watergate and the deliquescence of the Nixon presidency, from taking a timely or informed interest in the crucial triangle of force between Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.