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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.
In this figure one can see the change in color of the gills just at the time when they begin to deliquesce.
They will deliquesce — until the next newsworthy incident — into the background of contemporary America.
And all the substances which this acid unites with crystallize, and do not deliquesce.
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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