intumescence

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Tin-oxides combine with carbonate of soda, in the flame of oxidation upon platinum wire, with intumescence to a bulky and confused mass, which is insoluble in more soda.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

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

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 by Various

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

From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Verne, Jules

The oxide is reduced with intumescence to the metallic state, and the bead becomes clear again.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

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

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous