Usually means: Causing a decrease in density.
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  3. rarefactive: Collins English Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or causing rarefaction

Similar:
rarefactional, frictious, rarefied, refractional, refractive, diffractional, frequential, radiofrequent, antiresonant, extinctic, more...

Opposite:
condensative, densifying, thickening

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Similar:
rarefactional, frictious, rarefied, refractional, refractive, diffractional, frequential, radiofrequent, antiresonant, extinctic, more...

Opposite:
condensative, densifying, thickening



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