recalescev.
/ˌriːkəˈlɛs/, U.S. /ˌrikəˈlɛs/ Materials Science.
intransitive. To exhibit recalescence.
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1887 Nature 15 Dec. 165 If an iron bar..be heated to a white heat and allowed to cool, the brightness at first diminishes, and then reglows (recalesces) for a short interval.
1918 A. T. Lincoln Textbk. Physical Chem. xxii. 251 In some instances the temperature of the cooling sample of iron actually rises; the metal becomes hotter, it recalesces.
1991 Nature 28 Feb. 737/1 This, together with the strikingly narrow range of ΔT οbserved for those drops which recalesced, makes it highly probable that true homogeneous nucleation had been observed.
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