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Effervesce

verb

(past & past part. effervesced; pres. part. effervescing)

Become bubbly or frothy or foaming. Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle. "The river was foaming" , "Sparkling water"

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... ourselves try the efficacy of the remedy. It was easy to see that the stones are thin and porous opercula, which have formed part of small univalve shells. Their diameter varies from one to four lines. One of their two surfaces is plane, and the other convex. These calcareous opercula effervesce with lemon juice, and put themselves in motion in proportion as the carbonic acid is disengaged. By the effect of a similar reaction, loaves placed in an oven move sometimes on a horizontal plane; a phenomenon that has given occasion, ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

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