The sodium chloride precipitated into a salt.
•Will this compound precipitate into anything if I cool it?
2. Fig. [for something] to become a more serious matter. •By then, the street fight had precipitated into a riot.
•We were afraid that the argument would precipitate into a fight.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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