exsolve

English

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin exsolvere. Doublet of exolve.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

exsolve

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exsolvō
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