A Chymical Dictionary

Colliquation

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At a Glance

The word. Melting understood through the example of metals.

In the book. Fusio is the close parallel: it means melting or making something flow in fire.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345.

Historical Definition

Colliquation is melting, as metals are melted.

Meaning

The metal example fixes the sense of a word that might otherwise be mistaken for any passage into a liquid condition. It describes melting, rather than the dictionary’s distinct account of dissolving a coagulated body in a cold place.

Use in the Book

Fusio is the close parallel: it means melting or making something flow in fire. Deliquium names cold dissolution. Read together, the entries encourage attention to how a material becomes liquid, without supplying temperatures or a universal scheme of physical states.

Places to Read

Deliquium. Dissolution of a coagulated body in a cold setting.

Fusio. An operation defined by melting and flow in fire.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Colliquation

See also. Deliquium; Fusio