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Aeration :: Aeration (n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc..

Plight :: Plight (n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight..

Guilt :: Guilt (v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right..

Graduation :: Graduation (n.) The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation..

Pyrophorus :: Pyrophorus (n.) Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead..

Indurate :: Indurate (v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air..

Fast :: Fast (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors..

Vivianite :: Vivianite (n.) A hydrous phosphate of iron of a blue to green color, growing darker on exposure. It occurs in monoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy..

Cerargyrite :: Cerargyrite (n.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver)..

Exposure :: Exposure (n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc..

Air-slacked :: Air-slacked (a.) Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime..

Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury..

Char :: Char (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

Phototonus :: Phototonus (n.) A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light.

Fair-weather :: Fair-weather (a.) Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage..

Linoleum :: Linoleum (n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied..

Murexan :: Murexan (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid..

Guilt :: Guilt (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

Isopepsin :: Isopepsin (n.) Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40¡ to 60¡ C.

Salicylal :: Salicylal (n.) A thin, fragrant, colorless oil, HO.C6H4.CHO, found in the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiraea), and also obtained by oxidation of salicin, saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salicylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, / spiroylous, acid..

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