Evaporate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: evaporateEvaporative
Pertaining to or producing evaporation as the evaporative process...
Evaporable
Capable of being converted into vapor or dissipated by evaporation...
evaporated
reduced in volume by having moisture expelled before canning same as condensed 3 as unsweetened evaporated milk...
Evaporation
The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into and carried off in vapor as the evaporation of water of ether of camphor...
Bay salt
Salt which has been obtained from sea water by evaporation in shallow pits or basins by the heat of the sun the large crystalline salt of commerce...
Boilery
A place and apparatus for boiling as for evaporating brine in salt making...
Brine
Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt pickle hence any strong saline solution also the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters...
Catechu
A dry brown astringent extract obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu and several other plants growing in India It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid and is used in medicine and in the arts It is also known by the names terra japonica cutch gambier etc...
Coagulation
The change from a liquid to a thickened curdlike insoluble state not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction as the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood the coagulation of milk by rennet or acid and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification...
cryophorus
An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs connected by a tube of the same material and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor devoid of air The water is in one of the bulbs and freezes when the other is cooled below 32deg Fahr...
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