colliquation

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CIDE DICTIONARY

colliquation, n.

A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. [1913 Webster]
"When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call “glass”." [1913 Webster]
A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

colliquation

Liquefaction

N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.

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