colliquation

CIDE DICTIONARY

colliquation, n. 

•  A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.  [1913 Webster]

  "When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call “glass”."  [1913 Webster]
•  A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

colliquation

Liquefaction

N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.