intumesce

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• For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• Such alternative materials could have been spray-on nano-thermites substituted for intumescent paint or Interchar-like fireproofing primers (NASA 2006). 20 « August « 2008 « Niqnaq
• Because of its foaming effect in case of a fire, it is also referred to as "intumescent". Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox
• I do not advise trephining in the secondary glaucoma following intumescent cataract, for in such cases the semi-fluid lens bulges into and blocks the trephine hole. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
• Approximate solutions were found for the rate of growth of a bubble in the process of intumescence.
• Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea. The Underground City
• The first two are evident, as when it fuses it runs into a globule; the last, by inspecting it before and after the heating with a magnifying glass; sometimes it froths up when heated, and is then said to "intumesce;" or, if it flies to fragments, "decrepitates. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
• Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
• By this process the upper zone of crystalline matter, which had intumesced so far as to allow of the escape of its aqueous vapor and of much of its mica and quartz, was resolidified, the component crystals arranging themselves in planes perpendicular to the direction of the pressure by which the mass was consolidated -- that is, to the radius of the globe. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
• We thank thee, O God, that the South has not kept pace with New York's super-estheticism -- that when our women find themselves in an "interesting condition" they seek the seclusion of the home instead of telephoning for a reporter and a chalk artist and exploiting their intumescence in the public prints. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10