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exsolve

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exsolve (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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