exsolve

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin exsolvere. Doublet of exolve.

Verb

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exsolve (third-person singular simple present exsolves, present participle exsolving, simple past and past participle exsolved)

  1. (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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Latin

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Verb

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exsolve

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exsolvō