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Liquefied   /lˈɪkwəfˌaɪd/   Listen
verb
Liquefy  v. t.  (past & past part. liquefied; pres. part. liquefying)  
1.
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
2.
To convert from a gaseous form into a liquid; as, to liquefy natural gas.


Liquefy  v. i.  To become liquid.


adjective
liquefied  adj.  
1.
Converted to a liquid; as, liquified natural gas; liquified coal..
Synonyms: liquified.
2.
Rendered liquid by heating; changed from a solid to a liquid state; melted.
Synonyms: molten, liquified.
3.
Rendered liquid by dissolution in a solvent; of solids.
Synonyms: dissolved, liquified.





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"Liquefied" Quotes from Famous Books



... 23 we saw that a fall of temperature caused water vapor to condense or liquefy. If temperature alone were considered, most gases could not be liquefied, because the temperature at which the average gas liquefies is so low as to be out of the range of possibility; it has been calculated, for example, that a temperature of 252 deg. C. below zero would have to be obtained in ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark
... darkness was profound. But its cylindro- conical partitions had resisted wonderfully. Not a rent or a dent anywhere! The wonderful projectile was not even heated under the intense deflagration of the powder, nor liquefied, as they seemed to fear, in ...
— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne
... represents those capable of producing a liquefied or digested condition on gelatin or in milk. They are usually the spore-bearing species which gain access from filth and dirt. Their high powers of resistance due to spores makes it difficult to eradicate this type, although they are materially held in subjection by ...
— Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition - A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying • H. L. Russell
... Whence comes it that such nitre maintained in red-hot fusion in a glass retort for half an hour, becomes moist in open air and deliquesces after cooling, and still does not show any trace of alkali? (Sec. 27, letter c.) What is the reason that this liquefied nitre permits its volatile acid to escape immediately, when rubbed or mixed with the vegetable acids?... If the chemists of the preceding century had thought worthy of a more particular examination, the elastic fluids ...
— Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 • Carl Wilhelm Scheele
... taken his share of the harvest. Every good hive has presented him with eighty or a hundred pounds of honey; the most remarkable will sometimes even give two hundred, which represent an enormous expanse of liquefied light, immense fields of flowers that have been visited daily one or two thousand times. He throws a last glance over the colonies, which are becoming torpid. From the richest he takes their superfluous wealth to distribute it among those whom misfortune, unmerited always in ...
— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck


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