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Incrustation   /ˌɪnkrəstˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Incrustation

noun
1.
The formation of a crust.  Synonym: encrustation.
2.
A hard outer layer that covers something.  Synonyms: crust, encrustation.
3.
A decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay.  Synonym: encrustation.






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"Incrustation" Quotes from Famous Books



... are covered on the surfaces which go to make up the joints with a cartilage of incrustation, while the portions between are covered with a fibrous ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... way, at Hierapolis in Phrygia there is a multitude of boiling hot springs from which water is let into ditches surrounding gardens and vineyards, and this water becomes an incrustation of stone at the end of a year. Hence, every year they construct banks of earth to the right and left, let in the water, and thus out of these incrustations make walls for their fields. This seems due to natural causes, since there is a juice having a coagulating potency like rennet underground ...
— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

... globule with or without an incrustation may be obtained. Gold and copper salts give a metallic bead without an incrustation. If the incrustation be white and readily volatile, arsenic is present, if more difficultly volatile and beads ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... facts with reference to the aerolites, upon which general dependence may be placed. Immediately after their descent they are always intensely hot. They are covered with a fused black incrustation, consisting chiefly of oxide of iron; and, what is most remarkable, their chemical analysis develops the same substances in nearly the same proportions, though one may have reached the earth in India and another in England. Their specific gravities are about ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various

... of them were unconscious, breathing with the hard snuffle of dying men. Their skin was already darkening to the death-tint, which is not white. They were all plastered with a gray clay and this mud on their faces was, in some cases, mixed with thick clots of blood, making a hard incrustation from scalp to chin. ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs


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