In the air it deliquesces much more rapidly than ignited calcium chloride. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
While he is alive the body deliquesces and decays, and the soul always weaves another garment and repairs the waste. From Wordnik.com. [Phaedo] Reference
Whence comes it that such nitre maintained in red-hot fusion in a glass retort for half an hour, becomes moist in open air and deliquesces after cooling, and still does not show any trace of alkali?. From Wordnik.com. [Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2] Reference
Certainly not one that speedily deliquesces; for they are both unmanageable, and, what is a more important consideration, they may hold in solution, and not decompose the poison, and thus inoculate the whole of the wound. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
It deliquesces in moist air. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
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