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sublimate

/verb suhb-luh-meyt; noun, adjective suhb-luh-mit, -meyt/US // verb ˈsʌb ləˌmeɪt; noun, adjective ˈsʌb lə mɪt, -ˌmeɪt //UK // (ˈsʌblɪˌmeɪt) //

升华,使之升华,使之升华的

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v.有主动词 verb
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    sub·li·mat·ed, sub·li·mat·ing.

    • : Psychology. to divert the energy of from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
    • : Chemistry. to sublime; extract by this process.to refine or purify.
    • : to make nobler or purer: To read about great men sublimates ambition.
v.无主动词 verb
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    sub·li·mat·ed, sub·li·mat·ing.

    • : to become sublimated; undergo sublimation.
n.名词 noun
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    • : Chemistry. the crystals, deposit, or material obtained when a substance is sublimated.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : purified or exalted; sublimated.

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Examples

  • In Wignot’s dreamily eloquent film, she presents us with a portrait of a man who seemingly sublimated his entire being into the creation of his art, documenting Ailey’s magnificent career with a wealth of archival footage and interviews.

  • Like a pet particularly prone to shedding, Swift-Tuttle leaves behind tiny bits of itself as it ambles along through the solar system, particularly when it’s near our star, and its solid, icy surface heats up, sublimating into a gas.

  • It’s one of only five moons in the solar system known to be geologically active, as evidenced by its active geysers that spew sublimated nitrogen gas.

  • Still, dry ice sublimates, or turns directly into carbon dioxide gas.

  • In fact, I think it’s quite not, but I’m probably doing a whole lot of sublimating without knowing it.

  • It dissolves mercury, and with it forms corrosive sublimate.

  • I compounded this philter of corrosive sublimate and herbs that have an effect upon the skin.

  • Mademoiselle Huet saw that the box contained sublimate of mercury in powder and in paste.

  • Corrosive sublimate, saturated aqueous solution, for five minutes.

  • Of these, Lang's corrosive sublimate solution is decidedly the best all-round "fixative."