fulguration
- Noun. The quality of flashing like lightning.
- Noun. (medicine) Cauterization with electricity; electrocautery.
- Noun. (chemistry, obsolete) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; also called blick.
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