exhalable

English

Etymology

From exhale +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛksˈ(h)eɪləbəl/

Adjective

exhalable (comparative more exhalable, superlative most exhalable)

  1. Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.
    • 1675, Robert Boyle, On the Mechanical Production of Electricity:
      the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully

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