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emollescence Chem. and Min.|ɪmɒˈlɛsəns|
[f. L. ēmollesc-ĕre to grow soft + -ence.]
‘A state of softening; the softened condition of a melting body before it fuses’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1794Kirwan Min. I. 43 The..lowest degree is emollescence. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts. |