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- verb Present participle of
opalize .
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With a view to being able to detect and determine even the minutest; trace of any precipitate suspended in a fluid, Richards, by adopting and adapting an earlier idea, has constructed his well-known nephelometer, which, by the use of reflected light, allows of a reliable quantitative assessment being made of "opalizing" quantities of substance so small that they could be determined gravimetrically only with the utmost difficulty, if indeed at all.
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