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
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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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).