fixidity
English
editNoun
editfixidity (uncountable)
- 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
See also
editReferences
edit- “fixidity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.