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Exsiccation vs Siccity - What's the difference?

exsiccation | siccity | Derived terms |

Siccity is a derived term of exsiccation.



As nouns the difference between exsiccation and siccity

is that exsiccation is the act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture while siccity is dryness.

exsiccation

English

Noun

  • The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
  • * 1658 , Sir Thomas Brown, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971
    • That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
    (Webster 1913)

    siccity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dryness.
  • *, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:
    • To the preservation of life the natural heat is most requisite, though siccity and humiditybe not excluded.
  • * 2006 , Joseph A. Munk, Arizona Sketches , p.124, ReadHowYouWant.com, ISBN 1442938609.
    • Only by extreme siccity is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls by precipitation.
  • * 2007 , Patricia Arlabosse, Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Didier Lecomte, Michel Crine, Yohann Dumont, Angélique Léonard, "Efficient sludge thermal processing: from drying to thermal valorization", in Evangelos Tsotsas, Arun S. Mujumdar (eds) Modern Drying Technology, Energy Savings , p.319, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 3527315594.
    • At least regarding combustion, it is advisable to derive conditions for the auto-ignition of the wet sewage sludge from an enthalpy balance with a flame temperature of 600 °C. This generally gives values of siccity close to 50%.

    Derived terms

    * exsiccation