exsolve
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin exsolvere. Doublet of exolve.
Verb
editexsolve (third-person singular simple present exsolves, present participle exsolving, simple past and past participle exsolved)
- (mineralogy, when referring to two or more minerals in a solid solution) To separate from one another at a critical point in temperature.
- Certain minerals may exsolve into the atmosphere from an erupting volcano.
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