liquefy
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The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to most tankers, which has clogged LNG flows, and Iran’s missiles have crippled Qatar’s facilities that liquefy and ship natural gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil's projects require onshore facilities to liquefy the gas so it can be transported by sea.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
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
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Cooling natural gas until it liquefies is energy intensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Before that, I gently pierce its skin with a knife, just enough to release the precious fat after it liquefies.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
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
When solid ice liquefies, heat is absorbed from surrounding materials.
From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
Maersk is reportedly planning a US$8.9 billion program for 42 liquefied natural gas dual field container ships, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Before the war, the strait—a critical artery for global energy markets—used to carry around a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Central Command, said on Sept. 19 that commercial transits and the volume of oil, cargo and liquefied natural gas moving through Hormuz over the past two weeks have reached their highest levels in six months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Some 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas used to pass through the strait before the war and its closure has caused wild fluctuations of prices.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
I stared at the problem until my liquefied eyeballs were about to drip out of their sockets and roll down my cheeks.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
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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
Companies are developing and marketing varied and creative ways to store renewable energy: liquefying carbon dioxide, de-rusting iron, heating towers filled with sand to temperatures almost hot enough to melt aluminum.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
“Having electrolyzers and liquefying at all regional airports is just a dream,” said Pierre Farjounel, general manager of Universal in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
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
The other Tidemaker did the same, features liquefying, but then solidifying once more, his face gray, speckled with bits of metal.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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