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What does deliquesce mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To melt and disappear.
  2. (chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere.
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The plant at the extreme right has expanded and begun to deliquesce.
They then expand quickly, curl up in shreds, and deliquesce into a black inky fluid which stains the ground.
The old name for the liquid formed when perchloride of iron is allowed to deliquesce by free exposure to the air.
They will deliquesce — until the next newsworthy incident — into the background of contemporary America.
Then, surprise: a secret chamber filled with the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, bright yellow and just starting to deliquesce.
It was nothing else than copper sulphate which had been allowed to deliquesce to a white powder.

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