intumescence

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Perhaps his admirers may answer, that my remark is but the ramification of envy, the intumescence of ill-nature, the exacerbation of 'gloomy malignity.'

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Notice whether the substance fuses with the bead, and if so, whether there is intumescence or not.

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Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species.

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Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea.

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Microcosmic salt dissolves the compounds of antimony in the flame of oxidation with intumescence, to a clear light-yellow colored bead, which when cold is colorless.

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