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Meaning of 'effloresce' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Effloresce [ v. i.]
- To blossom forth.
- 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.
- 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 in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.

Meaning of 'effloresce' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . effloresce [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come into or as if into flower
Example in sentence:
  • These manifestations effloresced in the past

Nearby Words:

effable efface effaceable effaced effacement effacing effascinate effascination effect effected

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