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  • adjective Capable of being condensed.

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  • adjective Capable of being condensed.

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Examples

  • This smokelessness can be understood from the fact that the products of combustion are nearly all non-condensible gases, and contain no solid products of combustion which would cause smoke.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • Nitrogen, (not condensible under 50 atmospheres, and not respirable or combustible,) 7.750

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

  • But, besides that, something is going out at the top: it is not moisture—it is not water—it is not condensible; and yet, after all, it has very singular properties.

    The Chemical History of a Candle 1909

  • Steam is condensible into water, and when you lower the temperature of steam you convert it back into fluid water; but I have lowered the temperature of the gas which I have collected in this jar by passing it through water after it has traversed the iron barrel, and still it does not change back into water.

    The Chemical History of a Candle 1909

  • Because there is no condensible vapour above three or four miles high at the line.

    The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Now it is possible, that the quantity of electricity condensible on one side of a coated phial may increase in some high ratio in respect to the thinness of the glass, since the power of attraction is known to decrease as the squares of the distances, to which this circumstance of electricity seems to bear some analogy.

    The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • From the observations of M. Bougner on the mountain Pinchinca, one of the Cordelieres immediately under the line, there appears to be no condensible vapour above three or four miles high.

    The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Removing all of the CO2 and other non-condensible GHG's would result in a most of the water vapor and cloud effect precipitating from the air, and a consequent collapse of the terrestrial greenhouse effect.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Removing all of the CO2 and other non-condensible GHG's would result in a most of the water vapor and cloud effect precipitating from the air, and a consequent collapse of the terrestrial greenhouse effect.

    RealClimate 2009

  • Removing all of the CO2 and other non-condensible GHG's would result in a most of the water vapor and cloud effect precipitating from the air, and a consequent collapse of the terrestrial greenhouse effect.

    RealClimate 2009

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