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noun

Ebullition n.

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. (Formerly written bullition)

A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.

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Etymology of 'Ebullition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sobs she ejaculated, "Oh, that good man, Socrates! To think they should have treated him so!" She was finally soothed; but considering that the incident in question was of a rather remote date, this ebullition of feeling evinced a generous sympathy with a victim of past injustice, truly worthy of ...

— Old New England Traits • Anonymous

... to laugh. It was a strange, hysterical ebullition of feeling, frankly horrifying. Naida gazed at her ...

— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... place where the house (F) is situated; this is filled up by another level, which shuts out a great part of the prospect; the remainder was too distant, and the sun's rays too powerful, to allow of our seeing more than a quantity of smoke, and an occasional fiery ebullition from the further extremity. It was not until we had walked to the hut (G) that we became sensible of the awful grandeur of the scene below; from this point we looked perpendicularly down on the blackened mass, and felt our insignificance. The path leads between many fissures ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various

... rendereth advice odious and unsavoury; driveth from it and depriveth it of efficacy; it turneth regret for a fault into displeasure and disdain against the reprover; it looks not like the dealing of a kind friend, but like the persecution of a spiteful enemy; it seemeth rather an ebullition of gall, or a defluxion from rancour, than an expression of good-will; the offender will take it for a needless and pitiless tormenting, or for a proud and tyrannical domineering over him. He that can bear a friendly touch, will not endure to be lashed with angry and reproachful ...

— Sermons on Evil-Speaking • Isaac Barrow

... boils. What boils it? Placing the alum solution in front of the lamp, the boiling instantly ceases. Now, the alum is pervious to all the luminous rays; hence it cannot be these rays that caused the boiling. I now introduce the iodine, and remove the alum: vigorous ebullition immediately recommences at the invisible focus. So that we here fix upon the invisible ultra-red rays the ...

— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall

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