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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality of being fugacious; disposition to flee or escape; volatility; transitoriness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape
  2. n. A measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions
  3. n. Transience.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility.
  2. adj. Uncertainty; instability.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
  2. n. the tendency of a gas to expand or escape

Examples

  • “For example, a profile of the fugacity (partial pressure corrected for the fact that the gas is not ideal) of CO2 (f CO2) shows that Pacific-origin waters below 50 m in Canada Basin are oversaturated due to their origin in the productive Bering/Chukchi Seas (see Fig. 9.34).”

    Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic

  • “Profiles of the fugacity (partial pressure corrected for the fact that the gas is not ideal) of CO2 in Canada Basin and the Eurasian Basin.”

    Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic

  • “Estimating pesticide environmental risk scores with land use data and fugacity equilibrium models in Misiones, Argentina [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment] by J. Ares”

    Common Sense Prevails Over NCBA 'Free Trade' Rhetoric

  • “The concentration of dissolved CO2 and the fugacity of gaseous CO2, fCO2, then obey the equation [CO2] = K0 × fCO2.”

    Marine carbonate chemistry

  • “The fugacity is practically equal to the partial pressure, pCO2 (within ~1%).”

    Marine carbonate chemistry

  • “Finally, the fugacity is calculated from the mixing ratio. pH is usually measured using a glass/reference electrode cell or spectrophotometrically using an indicator dye.”

    Marine carbonate chemistry

  • “To further muddy the waters introduce the idea of gas fugacity – given constant P and T, greenschist assemblages can be amphibolite simply by increasing O2 fugacity.”

    Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit

  • “A fugue may be at its best when it has all the virtues of fugacity; but law is not best when it excels in legality; law must also be just.”

    Legal Positivism

  • “Emerson, differing from the tradition of Swedenbor - gian “correspondences” on which he drew, insists on the “accidency and fugacity” of the symbol.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas

  • “It is so serviceable a pigment for so many purposes, especially in admixture, that its sin of fugacity is overlooked.”

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

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  • bilby *giggles* Sep 26, 2008

‘fugacity’ has been looked up 1381 times, loved by 2 people, added to 17 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 17.