Deliquesces Definition

Deliquesces Sentence Examples

• It deliquesces in moist air.

• Thorium chloride readily deliquesces on exposure and forms double salts with alkaline chlorides.

• The solid must be at once bottled, because it attracts the moisture and carbonic acid of the air with great avidity and deliquesces.

• It deliquesces in moist air, and is easily reduced to arsenic by heating with carbon.

• Pure potassium is a silvery white metal tinged with blue; but on exposure to air it at once forms a film of oxide, and on prolonged exposure deliquesces into a solution of hydrate and carbonate.