sublimes

When strongly heated it sublimes, that is, it passes into a vapor without melting, and condenses again to a crystalline solid when the vapor is cooled.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity.

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

Ice on Kilimanjaro, for example, sublimes rather than melts.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I May Have Been Wrong When I Said Government Officials Weren’t Dumb 2009

Documentary work sublimes between art and PJ, but it's neither.

Brownlee slams scoliosis 2008

From the Wikibooks page: "Storing acetone peroxide is not recommended, because it quickly sublimes."

Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006

TATP sublimes at room temperature not because it is cold, like dry ice, but because it its intrinsic properties.

Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006

Je ne sais pas si c une specificité japonaise/asiatique ou si c'est simplement une specificité des produits de collection mais a chaque fois que je commande quelque chose au Japon ou un objet asiatique ils sont toujours emballés dans des boites sublimes!

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

Aegypto Osyris, &c. Praestites, Capella calls them, which protected particular men as well as princes, Socrates had his Daemonium Saturninum et ignium, which of all spirits is best, ad sublimes cogitationes animum erigentem, as the Platonists supposed;

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The polar caps concist of solid CO2 measured by observing the infrared levels at which CO2 sublimes.

Think Progress » AEI Letter Offers $10,000 Payments Only For Views Critical Of The IPCC Report 2007

On de Man's reading of Kant's sublimes, see my "'As the poets do it': On the Material Sublime". close window

Notes on 'Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History' 2005