| 单词 | liquid air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliquid air liquid air n. air in a liquid state. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > liquid air or oxygen liquid oxygen1878 liquid air1899 1899 McClure's Mag. XII. 397 (heading) Liquid air. A new substance that promises to do the work of coal and ice and gunpowder, at next to no cost. 1899 McClure's Mag. XII. 399/1 A liquid-air engine, if powerful enough, will compress the air and produce the cold in my liquefying machine exactly as well as a steam engine. 1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Oct. 3/4 The most sensational thing in the scientific world today is liquid air. 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 91 Waiting for us with hot soup in a liquid-air flask. 1946 Nature 20 July 105/1 A laboratory liquid-air plant utilizing Freon-12 as a pre-cooling fluid has been designed and is now being constructed. < as lemmas |
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