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deliquescent

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  1. Relating to a solid substance that absorbs moisture from the air and becomes liquid. Deliquescent substances usually absorb so much moisture from the air that they form a strong solution. Potassium hydroxide is deliquescent.


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But here in Cézanne’s watercolors of the cliffs of Provence — deliquescent landscapes, rocks turned into fluid — still lies a master class for artists working in a totally transformed climate, culturally and ecologically speaking.

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Tumbledown stacks of painted wood and resin, or a huge sheet of punctured, deliquescent Styrofoam, suggest melting permafrost and worn rock formations; cast sheets of crumpled paper map changing Arctic surfaces.

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The cloth feels taut, secure; the flesh beneath oily, blotchy, deliquescent.

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The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble’s CD release performance began with “Elf†— an extended composition based around “Isfahan,†the deliquescent Billy Strayhorn ballad — and ended on a bridling, crosshatched rendition of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.â€

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Mired in a fetid soup of excrement and deliquescent corpses, they “had become semi-aquatic mammals, a kind of large and vicious water rat, living in and above the drainage ditches of the marsh.â€

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