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Effloresce

verb
(past & past part. effloresced; pres. part. efflorescing)
1.
Come into or as if into flower.  Synonym: burst forth.
2.
Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.  Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize.
3.
Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation.



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"Effloresce" Quotes from Famous Books



... metal. The mud which passes from the mills is collected into pools, where it subsides, and every now and then is cleared out, and thrown into a common heap. A great deal of chemical action then commences, salts of various kinds effloresce on the surface, and the mass becomes hard. After having been left for a year or two, and then rewashed, it yields gold; and this process may be repeated even six or seven times; but the gold each time becomes less in quantity, and the intervals required (as ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin

... near the town of Altorf in Franconia, at the foot of a mountain covered with pine and savine, in which are found large coals resembling trees of ebony; which are so far mineralized as to be heavy and compact; and so to effloresce with pyrites in some parts as to crumble to pieces; yet from other parts white ashes are produced on calcination, from which fixed alcali is procured; which evinces their vegetable origin. (Dict. Raisonne, art. Charbon.) To ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin



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