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[ noun ] wetness caused by water
Synonyms Examples "drops of wet gleamed on the window" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)That keeps_in the cold , retains moisture and prevents the heaving of alternate freezing and thawing . (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per_cent , a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine , to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes . Sets of reaction tubes containing 0.2 of an atmosphere of added oxygen in one case and added moisture in another , both gave reaction rates in the range of 0.1 to 0.4 of the chlorine exchanged per hour . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Adam watched the moisture flow from the poncho . Moisture ran_down the cheeks , gathered at the tip of the nose , and at the chin . |
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