effervesce

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The fundamental principle of protein skimmers is to effervesce or foam the water so that the muck and waste bi-products get collected and you are able to dispose of it.

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  1. intransitive verb To emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid.
  2. intransitive verb To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up.
  3. intransitive verb To show high spirits or animation.

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  • Now and then familiarity was pushed too far, and would effervesce into a brawl, and a "rough and tumble" fight; but it all ended in cordial reconciliation and maudlin endearment. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • His constant individuality of mind, his constant freshness, alertness, brilliancy, warmth, sympathy, endear him to his congregation, and when he returns from an absence they bubble and effervesce over him as if he were some brilliant new preacher just come to them. —  Acres of Diamonds
  • Here are mines of native Darkness and Human Stupidity, capable of being made to phosphoresce and effervesce, -- are there not, your Majesty? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • The fundamental principle of protein skimmers is to effervesce or foam the water so that the muck and waste bi-products get collected and you are able to dispose of it. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • If you pour an acid and an alkali together -- like vinegar and soda -- they will "fizz" or effervesce, and at the same time _neutralize_ or "kill" each other. —  A Handbook of Health
 

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  1. Latin effervēscere : ex-, up, out; see ex- + fervēscere, to start boiling, inchoative of fervēre, to boil; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin effervescere, boil up, foam up, from ex, out, + fervescere, begin to boil, from fervēre, boil: see fervent.
 

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