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Words Relating to Matter

Section II.—Inorganic Matter

1°. Solid Matter

321. Density (Substantives), solidity, impenetrability, incompressibility, cohesion, coherence, cohesiveness 46, imporosity, impermeability, closeness, compactness, constipation, consistence, spissitude, thickness.

Specific gravity: hydrometer, arèometer.

Condensation, consolidation, solidification, concretion, coagulation, petrifaction, lapidification, vitrification, crystallisation, precipitation, inspissation, thickening, grittiness, knottiness.

Indivisibility, indiscerptibility, indissolubility.

A solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, clinker, nugget.

(Verbs). To be dense, etc.

To become or render solid; solidify, solidate, concrete, set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curdle, curd, fix, clot, cake, cohere, crystallise, petrify, vitrify, condense, thicken, inspissate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

(Adjectives). Dense, solid, solidified, consolidated, etc., coherent, cohesive, compact, close, thick-set, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, incompressible, impermeable, imporous, constipated, concrete, knotted, gnarled, crystalline, crystallisable, vitreous, coagulated, thick, incrassated, inspissated, curdled, clotted, grumous.

Undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed.

Indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble.

322. Rarity (Substantives), tenuity, absence of solidity, subtility, sponginess, compressibility; hollowness 252.

Rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilisation.

Ether, vapour, air, gas 334.

(Verbs). To rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilise.

(Adjectives). Rare, subtle, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible.

Porous, cavernous, spongy, bibulous, spongious, spongeous.

Rarefied, expanded, dilated, subtilised, unsubstantial, hollow 252.

323. Hardness (Substantives), rigidity, rigescence, firmness, renitence, inflexibility, stiffness, starchiness, starchedness, temper, callosity, induration, grittiness, petrifaction, etc. 321, ossification, sclerosis.

A stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, granite, iron, steel, adamant, callus.

Tenseness, stretching 200.

(Verbs). To render hard, harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify.

(Adjectives). Hard, horny, rigid, rigescent, stiff, firm, starch, stark, unbending, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, etc., proof, adamantean, adamantine.