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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Metasomatism

· Met·a·so·ma·tism · IPA
01 n. An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to or…
  1. 1.
    An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.(Geol.)