Crossword-Solution: RETROFLEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retroflex | a. | Alt. of Retroflexed |
We have 4 clues for the answer “RETROFLEX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bent backward | 2 answers |
| Turned backward | 3 answers |
| BEND OR TURN BACKWARD | 11 answers |
| ARTICULATE WITH THE TONGUE CURLED BACK AGAINST THE PALATE | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAZECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RETROFLEX (5)
The retroflex portion of the solubility curve of the hexahydrate extends to only 1° below the melting point of the hydrate.
The whole diagram, therefore, shows a succession of stable hydrates, a metastable hydrate, a metastable melting point and retroflex solubility curve.
The Hydrates of Ferric Chloride.--A better illustration of the formation of compounds possessing a definite melting point, and of the existence of retroflex solubility curves, is afforded by the hydrates of ferric chloride, which not only possess definite points of fusion, but these melting points are stable.
The retroflex portion of this curve can be followed backwards to a temperature of 8°, but below 27.4° (D), the solutions are supersaturated with respect to the heptahydrate; point D is the eutectic point for dodecahydrate and heptahydrate.
The curve DE does not exhibit a retroflex portion; on the contrary, on attempting to obtain more concentrated solutions in equilibrium with the compound KI,4SO_{2}, a new solid phase (probably potassium iodide) was formed.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).