Exhalable

//ɛksˈ(h)eɪləbəl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.

    "the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully"

Example

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"the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully"

Etymology

From exhale + -able.

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