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n.
The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.
n.
A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
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Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically.
n.
The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.
v. t.
To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.
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The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
n.
Glass in a state of fusion.
superl.
Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
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A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
v. t.
To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
v. t.
The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
a.
Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.
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A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
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A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
n.
One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.
adv.
By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure.
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The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
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A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.
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Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
v. t.
To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.
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