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fixidity en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being fixed.
Sometimes the bodies mingled by the fire are differing enough as to fixidity and volatility , and yet are so combined by the first operation of the fire , that itself does scarce afterwards separate them
1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:Among the baſe metals, Copper retains its fixidity the longeſt in the fire next to Iron
1762, Anton Friedrich Buesching, A New System of Geography:
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