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Cupel :: Cupel (n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)..

Tufa :: Tufa () A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa..

Vaporous :: Vaporous (a.) Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent..

Carbonado :: Carbonado (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous..

Acrosporous :: Acrosporous (a.) Having acrospores.

Vaporous :: Vaporous (a.) Having the form or nature of vapor.

Polyporous :: Polyporous (a.) Having many pores.

Imperforata :: Imperforata (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous..

Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities..

Angiosporous :: Angiosporous (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi..

Vaporish :: Vaporish (a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.

Sipage :: Sipage (n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Oecoid :: Oecoid (n.) The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out..

Rarefy :: Rarefy (v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense..

Halituous :: Halituous (a.) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous..

Atmolysis :: Atmolysis (n.) The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

Vaporousness :: Vaporousness (n.) The quality of being vaporous.

Fumid :: Fumid (a.) Smoky; vaporous.

Osmose :: Osmose (n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion..

Utricular :: Utricular (a.) Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition of certain substances, as sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid..

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