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liquefy

[lik-wuh-fahy] / ˈlɪk wəˌfaɪ /
VERB
melt
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The company has also invested billions of dollars in projects to liquefy and ship natural gas on the Gulf Coast and in Qatar.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

Calpine appealed to him partly because of its work on carbon capture, a process allowing it to capture the carbon dioxide emissions coming out of plants, liquefy them, and store them underground.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

Foundries, which liquefy and cast metals, can release hexavalent chromium during melting, welding and grinding.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2025

But the company uses the heat generated by the electricity itself, rather than acid, to liquefy the ore.

From Science Magazine Apr. 30, 2024

Hazel wondered what it would be like to melt, if you would feel yourself slowly liquefy, or if your conscious thoughts would evaporate away before you did.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Who’s washing it, chopping it, remembering it exists in the crisper drawer before it liquefies?

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

As the gas liquefies, it shrinks, and becomes six hundred times smaller, making it much easier to transport.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2022

Nutrient-rich seal oil is rendered from the cold-water animal’s fat, which liquefies at room temperature.

From Washington Times Feb. 23, 2019

The line stops at 111 K because methane liquefies at this temperature; when extrapolated, it intersects the graph’s origin, representing a temperature of absolute zero.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

When solid ice liquefies, heat is absorbed from surrounding materials.

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes

In normal times the strait accounts for about one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

The latest escalation began earlier in the week when Iran launched missiles and drones on three ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, including a liquefied natural-gas tanker.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Iran’s attacks early Tuesday targeted a liquefied natural gas tanker from Qatar, whose exports dried up in March and April but have now steadied at high levels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Another, 20 kilometres away, saw bright orange flames and a plume of smoke rising from the area, home to the world's largest liquefied natural gas hub.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

Around to the other side of the building, tanker trucks pump in thousands of gallons of liquefied fat, usually beef fat from a nearby slaughterhouse.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.

From Science Magazine Mar. 19, 2024

People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2023

Through the process of capillary action, contaminated water and liquefying waste, like that deposited in latrines, could travel to the sources of public drinking water.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

And how did they convey the sandworm rushing through the sand, liquefying every particle in its path?

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2022

“Maybe we can save some of it,” he says as he finally grasps the Comet can and pulls it out of the water upside down, dumping even more liquefying powder into the tub.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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