deliquescent
Example Sentences
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The crystals are deliquescent, very soluble in water, and have an odor like that of garlic.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble’s CD release performance began with “Elf” — an extended composition based around “Isfahan,” the deliquescent Billy Strayhorn ballad — and ended on a bridling, crosshatched rendition of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.”
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2018
Dulwich exhibits Hero and Leandro, painted like those landscape panels in 1985 – their dribbles and fingerworking here orchestrated into a deliquescent collapse of mist-greys and cerise.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011
The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of them have a strong affinity for water, or are deliquescent, and consequently absorb it greedily from the air.
