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Effloresce   Listen
verb
Effloresce  v. i.  (past & past part. effloresced; pres. part. efflorescing)  
1.
To blossom forth.
2.
(Chem.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
3.
To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.






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Words linked to "Effloresce" :   crystallize, crystalize, encrust, efflorescent, devitrify, bloom, flower, incrust, solidify, burst forth, blossom, crystalise



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