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liquefy

[lik-wuh-fahy] / ˈlɪk wəˌfaɪ /
VERB
melt
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Gallium is a quirky silver metal with low enough melting temperature that it can liquefy in your hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 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

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

From Science Magazine Apr. 30, 2024

“It allows you to completely throw yourself into things that you believe in and liquefy your anxiety,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2023

The Wicked Witch would liquefy when drenched with water. marshal.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

It often decays and liquefies shortly after death.

From Science Magazine Mar. 21, 2024

The building’s walls and ceilings are constructed with a vegetable-based material that liquefies on hot afternoons to absorb heat and then solidifies at night.

From Washington Times Jan. 29, 2023

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

From BBC Nov. 2, 2022

Januarius, St., a Christian who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian, and whose head is preserved in Naples with a phial containing his blood which, on certain occasions, liquefies when brought into contact with the head.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

While some oil has managed to make it to the market, Croft said they are more worried about liquefied natural gas, which is “stranded with transits near zero” at the six-month mark of the conflict.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

A tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas has paid $5.3 million for priority passage through the Panama Canal ahead of El Nino-related restrictions, the waterway's deputy administrator, Ilya Espino de Marotta, told AFP on Thursday.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

RWE said it will instead invest $900 million to acquire an indirect 16% stake in a liquefied natural gas terminal in Louisiana and $300 million to support the development of natural gas turbines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Before the conflict began in late February, the waterway handled about one-fifth of global daily oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

I feel the ground underneath the building rupture—I can almost taste the iron in the liquefied earth.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

“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

Theoretically, transporting gas by pipelines would be easier than liquefying natural gas for export before converting it back into gas at its destination.

From New York Times Sep. 27, 2022

Nathan sang the Change song again and instead of thinking of water solidifying, he thought of it liquefying and transforming into mist.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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