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#178749 08/15/08 03:03 PM
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The word reminds me of fugacity, frequently encountered in chemistry/thermodynamics. It indicates the potential of one chemical substance to stay in one phase as a liquid/vapor/solid,

Here's a wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugacity

Trident #178763 08/16/08 02:42 AM
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Welcome, Trident! Dang--I would have guessed it as an assessment one uses when entering a smoke-filled bar...

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Fugacity: A community in which the dissociative disorder is prevalent. Nobody is quite sure who they were born, what it is they're supposed to do for a living, or whether they're with the same person whom they married or whose children are living with them


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