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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  • The Froh theme, too, is a trifle flat: it does not effervesce or sparkle: the “dewy splendour” of the Valkyrie music is not on it. —  Richard Wagner
  • At this point the liquid in the bowl should be foamy or will effervesce slightly when the bowl is shaken; this is carbonation caused by the yeast.
  • 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
  • Democracy will blossom and effervesce as there will be no more of that most egregious breech of the law - military seizure of political power. —  Vanguard News
  • Then, embittered by misery, men's minds begin to ferment and effervesce, and what inevitably follows is the overthrow of a realm. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
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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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