exsolve

Learned borrowing from Latin exsolvere. Doublet of exolve.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɒlv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɑlv/, /ɛkˈsɔlv/
• Rhymes: -ɒlv

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.

• exsolution

• exolves

exsolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of exsolvō