Liquefying
61liquefy — liquefiable, adj. liquefier, n. /lik weuh fuy /, v.t., v.i., liquefied, liquefying. to make or become liquid. [1375 1425; late ME lyquefyen < OF liquefier, trans. of L liquefacere to melt (see LIQUEFACIENT); see FY] Syn. melt, fuse, dissolve,… …
62Mülheim an der Ruhr — /myuul huym ahn derdd rddoohrdd / a city in North Rhine Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen. 176,100. * * * ▪ Germany city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies just southwest of Essen, in the Ruhr industrial region.… …
63phacoemulsification — /fak oh i mul seuh fi kay sheuhn/, n. Surg. the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction. Also, phakoemulsification. [phaco ( < Gk phako , comb. form of phakós… …
64Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike — born Sept. 21, 1853, Groningen, Neth. died Feb. 21, 1926, Leiden Dutch physicist. He taught at the University of Leiden (1882–1923), and in 1884 he founded the Cryogenic Laboratory (now known by his name) that established Leiden as the world s… …
65feeding behaviour — Any action of an animal directed toward obtaining nutrients. Each species evolves methods of searching for, obtaining, and ingesting food for which it can successfully compete. Some species eat only one type of food, others a variety. Among… …
66van der Waals, Johannes Diederik — born Nov. 23, 1837, Leiden, Neth. died March 9, 1923, Amsterdam Dutch physicist. As professor at the University of Amsterdam (1877–1907), he extended the classical ideal gas law (see gas laws) to describe the behaviour of real gases, deriving the …
67Agaricales — ▪ order of fungi order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes (phylum Basidiomycota, kingdom Fungi). Traditionally, agarics were classified based on the presence of gills (thin sheets of spore bearing cells, or basidia) and mushroom shaped… …
68Cailletet, Louis-Paul — ▪ French physicist born Sept. 21, 1832, Châtillon sur Seine, France died Jan. 5, 1913, Paris French physicist and ironmaster, noted for his work on the liquefaction of gases. As a youth, Cailletet worked in his father s ironworks and… …
69coal utilization — Introduction combustion of coal or its conversion into useful solid, gaseous, and liquid products. By far the most important use of coal is in combustion, mainly to provide heat to the boilers of electric power plants. Metallurgical coke… …
70Linde, Carl von — ▪ German engineer born June 11, 1842, Berndorf, Bavaria [Germany] died Nov. 16, 1934, Munich, Ger. German engineer whose invention of a continuous process of liquefying gases in large quantities formed a basis for the modern technology of… …
