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- Intumesce - v. i. - To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
- Intumesced - imp. & p. p. - of Intumesce
- Intumescence - n. - The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
- Intumescence - n. - Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
- Intumescent - a. - Swelling up; expanding.
- Zeolite - n. - A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.