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condensable, a.|kənˈdɛnsəb(ə)l|
Also -ible.
[mod. f. L. condensā-re to condense: see -ble. Also in mod.F. (The erroneous spelling condensible is app. after expansible, extensible, etc., from L. pa. pple.)]
That may be condensed.
1. That may be increased in density, or reduced in volume; compressible.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies ix. (R.), Not being in the utmost extremity of density, but condensable yet further. 1768Franklin Wks. (1840) V. 424 Vapor..condensable again by the least coolness. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 255 Air is..condensible and expansible.
2. That may be reduced from the state of gas or vapour to the liquid or solid condition.
1788Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 152 The slowly condensable vapour. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 461 [Carbonic acid] is not condensible in the common temperature and pressure of our atmosphere. 1802Henry in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 29 The proportion of carbonic acid gas condensible in water. 1871B. Stewart Heat §135 If the gas be condensable, liquid will begin to make its appearance. 1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. ii. 274 Metallic vapors condensable at a certain temperature. |