rarefaction

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Rarefaction would give rise to the opposite process.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

And from this Notion of it, we may easily give a more Intelligible reason how the Air becomes so capable of Rarefaction and Condensation.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

Rarefaction of thought         Spirit creates no other than heavenly or celestial bodies,         but the stellar universe is no more celestial than our earth.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

Rarefaction is the same thing as heat or growing hot, and condensation is identified with growing cold.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

As in those of Heat, and Light consequently of Rarefaction and Condensation, Hardness, and Fluidness, Perspicuity and Opacousness, Refractions and Colours. &c.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert