a. Now rare. [f. SUBLIME v. + -ABLE.] Capable of sublimation or of being sublimated.
1666. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual. (1667), 128. I had subdivided the body of Gold into such minute particles that they were sublimable. Ibid. (a. 1691), Hist. Air (1692), 47. I found the Salt it self to be sublimable.
1753. Chambers, Cycl., Suppl. s.v., They say that only those things are sublimable, which contain a dry exhalable matter in their original construction.
1869. Phillips, Vesuv., v. 152. [Ferric oxide] is not known to be sublimable per se.
Hence Sublimableness, the quality of being sublimable.
1661. Boyle, Scept. Chym. (1680), 391. He soon obtain’d such another Concrete, both as to tast and smell, and easie sublimableness as common Salt Armoniack.
