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sublime

[suh-blahym] / sΙ™ΛˆblaΙͺm /


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“Thank you to my sublime companion Min Ah. I love you, Min Ah. You are an angel.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

To capture it, Jeon Do-yeon and Cho Yeo-jeong forged a sublime chemistry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

All of which goes to underline the main takeaway - the sublime quality of Antonelli's drive.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned, until all the wires withered and the circuits cracked.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The perchloride of mercury sublimes undecomposed in the bulb, previously undergoing fusion.

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

If it is heated excluded from the air, it can be volatilized completely; it sublimes in bright crystals having the form of needles.

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

How many common men have not female society and the fervour of youthful passion sublimed into poets!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

But no genuine science of astronomy was founded until the Greeks sublimed experience into theory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

Unified paints containing sublimed white lead are of great value, showing upon long exposure very little decay.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

The corroded white lead was somewhat whiter than the sublimed white lead, but a careful observation of the surface of the corroded lead revealed deep checking.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

Look ye that yon frail flower should be sublimed To fruit commensurate with all your power And cunning art?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

I shall rise from the alembic a saint of their own subliming!

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir

Nor here alone the virtue reign’d, By matter’s cumb’rous form detain’d, But thence, subliming, and refin’d, Aspir’d, and reach’d its kindred mind.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore

You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.

From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko

The naphtha removes mostly only the phenanthrene, but the carbazol can be removed only by pyridine, or by subliming or distilling the anthracene over caustic potash.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various




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