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1. Easily melted; denoting specifically mixtures of certain chemical compounds that have a lower melting point than any of their individual ingredients; e.g., a solid, such as menthol, that when triturated with another solid of the same class, such as camphor, unites with it to form a liquid, the mixture having a lower melting point than either of its components.
2. The alloy that freezes at a constant temperature; the lowest of the series.
Origin: eu-+ G. Texis, a melting away
(05 Mar 2000)
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