Deliquesce vs Deliquate - What's the difference?
deliquesce | deliquate |
To melt and disappear.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter VIII
*:Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking. As for the rest of the contents of that place, though on the whole they were the best preserved of all I saw—I had little interest. I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I soon went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.
(chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere.
(obsolete) To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume.
* Fuller
(obsolete) To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
As verbs the difference between deliquesce and deliquate
is that deliquesce is to melt and disappear while deliquate is (obsolete|transitive) to cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume.deliquesce
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(en-verb)deliquate
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(deliquat)- Dilapidating, or rather deliquating , his bishopric.
- (Boyle)