icy noctiluca

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Noun

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icy noctiluca (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) white phosphorus.
    • 1680, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca:
      Buy I having returned to the Author both his own Papers, and my Version of them, in one Roll, it unfortunately hapned, that before the Icy Noctiluca was printed off, there broke out in the Night a great Fire […]
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