rarefiable
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See also: raréfiable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare French raréfiable.
Adjective
[edit]rarefiable (not comparable)
- Capable of being rarefied.
- 1671, Robert Boyle, “A Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air”, in Tracts […]. Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of the Air. […], London: […] T. N. for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, experiment III, page 10:
- […] Hovv the Air comes to be rarefiable ſo many times more vvithout Heat, than hitherto vve have found it to be by Heat.
References
[edit]- “rarefiable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.