deliquescence
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They’ve been prized for the very qualities that make some people shudder: their crunch, chewiness and final deliquescence on the tongue.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
If this is related to deliquescence from the atmosphere, we should see a difference in brightness and darkness, with time of day.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2017
The process, known as deliquescence, is seen in the Atacama desert, where the resulting damp patches are the only known place for microbes to live.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2015
It was an industry in a state of deliquescence, and Varda saw rightly that, if Hollywood were to become solid again, it would do so in open acknowledgment of and confrontation with its own past.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2015
Save, possibly, in a few islands and inaccessible places and regardless of colour or creed, this process of deliquescence seems destined to spread.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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