fixidity

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fixidity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fixed.
    • 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, [], London: [] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, [], →OCLC:
      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
    • 1762, Anton Friedrich Buesching, A New System of Geography:
      Among the baſe metals, Copper retains its fixidity the longeſt in the fire next to Iron

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