fugacity

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During winter (dry season), a relative increase of CO2 fugacity, together with a depletion in total alkalinity, was evident in the GBR lagoon water.

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  1. The quality of being fugacious; disposition to flee or escape; volatility; transitoriness. It is very likely that the heat produced by a medicine which by reason of its fugacity would stay but a very short time in the body will not be so lasting as that of ordinary sudorificks. Boyle, Works, II. 237. Parties keep the old names, but exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity. Emerson, Future of the Republic.

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  1. from French fugacité = Spanish fugacidad = Portuguese fugacidade = Italian fugacitá, from Late Latin fugacita (t-) s, from Latin fugax, fugacious: see fugacious.
 

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