HYDROTHERMAL SOLUTION


Meaning of HYDROTHERMAL SOLUTION in English

A hot, watery solution that usually emanates from a magma in the late stages of cooling. Frequently contains and deposits in economically workable concentrations minor elements that, because of incommensurate ionic radii or electronic charges, have not been able to fit into the atomic structures of the common minerals of igneous rocks (rocks formed by volcanic activity).

Environmental engineering English vocabulary.      Английский словарь экологического инжиниринга.