exhalableadj.
/ɛksˈheɪləb(ə)l//ɛɡzˈheɪləb(ə)l/ That can be exhaled; capable of being evaporated.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > able to be vaporized > able to be evaporated
evaporable?1541
exhalative1594
exhalable1682
1682 N. Grew Disc. Tasts in Plants vi. v. §2 in Anat. Plants 291 By drying the Root, the Tast and Virtue, which lie in its exhalible parts [etc.].
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) viii. 29 The Body by Exsiccation is deprived of those liquid and exhalable Parts.
1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 544 These exhalable Parts.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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