Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word EXSOLUTION
EXSOLUTION
Definitions of EXSOLUTION
- (geology) The process in which a solution of molten rocks separates into its constituents upon cooling
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using EXSOLUTION in a Sentence
- The structures occur because the meteoric iron has a certain nickel concentration that leads to the exsolution of kamacite out of taenite while cooling.
- In pipes as limescale and in surface deposits of calcite as travertine or tufa the primary driver of calcite formation is the exsolution of gas.
- The intergrowth forms by exsolution due to cooling of a grain of alkali feldspar with a composition intermediate between K-feldspar and albite.
- Graphic texture is commonly created by exsolution and devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
- Slow cooling gives the calcium the necessary time to separate itself from the structure to form exsolution lamellae of calcic clinopyroxene, leaving no pigeonite present.
- The ulvöspinel component tends to oxidize to magnetite plus ilmenite during subsolidus cooling of the host rocks, and the ilmenite so produced may form apparent exsolution (trellis type) laminae in magnetite.
- The transition to flood volcanism in the Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG), similar to other large igneous provinces, was also marked by atmospheric loading through the mass exsolution and emission of volatiles, via the process of volcanic degassing.
- The mineral occurs as exsolution lamellae and particles in rutile, coexisting with kyanite, sillimanite, and tourmaline in a highly metamorphosed gneiss.
- Bararite has no known solution or exsolution, but it is always mixed with other substances (cryptohalite, sal ammoniac, and sulfur).
- It consists of two amphiboles, gedrite and anthophyllite, which form exsolution lamellae that give the rock its typical iridescence.
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