The act or process of liquefying or melting something completely, especially through heat; thorough liquefaction.
From Latin 'col-' (together) combined with 'liquefactio' (the making liquid), from 'liquefacere.' This technical term merges two liquefying concepts into one.
This word is almost comically over-technical for 'melting'—it sounds like something from a 16th-century alchemist's journal, and that's exactly where these medieval scholars used it when describing their furnace experiments.
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