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In which the materials, the products, and the liberation of caloric are ultimately the same, whether the operation is attended by visible fire from the velocity of action, or weak incalescence from the slow progression of its motion; in which the component elements are continually assuming a gasseous form, and as constantly losing it by the force of mutual attraction for each other.

—The American Practical Brewer and Tanner

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The state of being incalescent; the state of growing warm; incipient or increasing heat. The two ingredients were easily mingled, and grew not only sensibly but considerably hot, and that so nimbly, that the incalescence sometimes came to its highth in about a minute of an hour by a minute clock. Boyle, Works, I. 104.

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In which the materials, the products, and the liberation of caloric are ultimately the same, whether the operation is attended by visible fire from the velocity of action, or weak incalescence from the slow progression of its motion; in which the component elements are continually assuming a gasseous form, and as constantly losing it by the force of mutual attraction for each other. — The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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