sublimate


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Synonyms for sublimate

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for sublimate

the product of vaporization of a solid

direct energy or urges into useful activities

make more subtle or refined

remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting

vaporize and then condense right back again

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made pure

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The electrical power required to sublimate the appropriate amount of ammonia carbamate is highly dependent upon the (ambient) temperature conditions, the system dynamics (response behavior), packaging, the corresponding engine application and its associated [NO.sub.x] reduction requirement.
The comet is active as sunlight warms the surface and causes frozen volatiles to sublimate. The comet's dusty coma, or head of the comet, is currently approximately 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) across, or 1.2 times the width of Australia.
Dry ice pellets are non-abrasive and they sublimate as they strike the surface being cleaned.
The question is whether schools tend to exacerbate those feelings or to sublimate them to some higher end.
While the title story's narrator investigates an unusual support group that encourages her to sublimate her sexual desire with rich desserts, other stories concern Barbie's publicity-seeking attempt at female bonding ("Barbie Goes to Group Therapy") and a woman who abandons herself to an obsessive romantic infatuation with exercise equipment ("Nautilus").
279) By not investigating institutions besides marriage that sublimate tendencies toward social disorder, Courtwright suggests an inexorable connection between violence and singleness.
When icy bodies from the outer solar system venture inside Jupiter's orbit, they sublimate and form tails, so astronomers have assumed that any ice on main-belt asteroids disappeared eons ago.
In such conditions, liquid water would quickly sublimate into the atmosphere and out into space.
Ceruse, a base for fucus or red paint, was made of white lead and vinegar, and sublimate of mercury, used for whitening the skin, was also a dangerous substance.
During spring, the deposits sublimate (vaporize), becoming a substantial source of water vapour, in particular in the northern hemisphere of the planet.
The speed of their shrinkage, given the temperatures and amounts of sunlight in the region, confirms that the material is frozen carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]).Water ice could not sublimate (evaporate directly from solid to gas) nearly so fast.
But the jury's still out on biology, and it's certainly still out on whether talk therapy can make you straight or just make you sublimate. Again, this doesn't hold water.
It is a difficult change to identify -- the time at which the ice actually starts to sublimate, or vaporize, and free the dust that forms a comet's visible coma.
But when it came time to make the movie, rather than sublimate those fears, he met them head-on--through the character of Dedee.