emanation

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God's power of emanation, which is creative, although simple in its origins and principle, is complex in its effects.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of emanating.
  2. noun Something that issues from a source; an emission.
  3. noun Chemistry Any of several radioactive gases that are isotopes of radon and are products of radioactive decay.

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  • God's power of emanation, which is creative, although simple in its origins and principle, is complex in its effects. —  Dietrich of Freiberg
  • Radium emanation gives off [alpha]-particles, that is, very rapidly moving atoms of helium, and deposits exceedingly minute quantities of a solid, radio-active substance known as radium A. The change of the emanation into helium and radium A proceeds fairly rapidly: the half-life period of the emanation is a little less than four days. —  The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
  • Marshall's later opinion in Gibbons vs. Ogden is, it is true, in some respects a greater intellectual performance, but it does not equal this earlier opinion in those qualities of form which attract the amateur and stir the admiration of posterity At the very outset of his argument in the Bank case Marshall singled out the question the answer to which must control all interpretation of the Constitution: Was the Constitution, as contended by counsel for Maryland, "an act of sovereign and independent States" whose political interests must be jealously safeguarded in its construction, or, was it an emanation from the American people and designed for their benefit? —  John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
  • Maryland, "an act of sovereign and independent States" whose political interests must be jealously safeguarded in its construction, or, was it an emanation from the American people and designed for their benefit? —  John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
  • The change of the emanation into helium and radium A proceeds fairly rapidly: the half-life period of the emanation is a little less than four days. —  The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
 

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  1. = French émanation = Spanish emanacion = Portuguese emanação = Italian emanazione; from Late Latin emanatio(n-), an emanation, from Latin emanare, flow out: see emanate.
 

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/ɛməˈneɪʃən/
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