the process by which a homogenous solid solution, esp molten rock, separates into its constituent minerals upon cooling
the microcrystals were produced by an exsolution process
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These intergrowths partly show a similarity with exsolution textures of primary magnetite.
H. van Lamoen 1977, 'Microtextures and microintergrowths of irontitanium-aluminium oxide minerals in amagmatic tinaniferous iron ore from Attu island, southwestern Finland', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume49/sgs_bt_049_2_pages_089_104.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Textures are the result of exsolution of dolomite from a magnesian calcite.
K. Puustinen 1974, 'Dolomite exsolution textures in calcite from the Siilinjärvi carbonatite complex,Finland', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume46/sgs_bt_046_2_pages_151_159.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Primary ilmenite contains exsolution lamellae of magnetite and aluminous spinel, oriented along the basal plane (0001).
H. van Lamoen 1977, 'Microtextures and microintergrowths of irontitanium-aluminium oxide minerals in amagmatic tinaniferous iron ore from Attu island, southwestern Finland', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume49/sgs_bt_049_2_pages_089_104.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Metal nanoparticles prepared by exsolution at the surface of perovskite oxides are key species in catalysis and energy fields.
Dragos Neagu, Evangelos I. Papaioannou, Wan K. W. Ramli, David N. Miller, Billy J.Murdoch, Hervé Ménard, Ahmed Umar, Anders J. Barlow, Peter J. Cumpson, John T. S.Irvine, Ian S. Metcalfe 2017, 'Demonstration of chemistry at a point through restructuring and catalytic activationat anchored nanoparticles', Nature Communicationshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-017-01880-y. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Exsolution spinel forms spherical grains, octahedral crystals, six-beam and eight-beam skeletal crystals co-oriented with host magnetite.
Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ayya V. Bazai, PavelM. Goryainov, Julia A. Mikhailova, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Nataly G. Konopleva 2017, 'Subsolidus Evolution of the Magnetite-Spinel-UlvöSpinel Solid Solutions in the KovdorPhoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia', Mineralshttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/7/11/215. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Microscopic features and distinctive magnetic behavior of plagioclase crystals indicate that the magnetite inclusions were generated by exsolution.
Chie Kato, Masahiko Sato, Yuhji Yamamoto, Hideo Tsunakawa, Joseph L. Kirschvink 2018, 'Paleomagnetic studies on single crystals separated from the middle Cretaceous Iritonogranite', Earth, Planets and Spacehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-018-0945-y. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Here, authors show in situ exsolution of nanoscale metal-metal oxide interfaces that improve cathode activities and durabilities.
Wenyuan Wang, Lizhen Gan, John P. Lemmon, Fanglin Chen, John T. S. Irvine, Kui Xie 2019, 'Enhanced carbon dioxide electrolysis at redox manipulated interfaces', Nature Communicationshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-019-09568-1. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)