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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of effloresce.

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Examples

  • Also note that when cement effloresces, the lime residue can run onto adjacent materials during rainy periods, etching the surface of that product a big problem with glass.

    Build Blog » Rainscreens 2008

  • Water obtained by digging is good where rain is fresh in the Fiumaras; saltish, so as to taste at first unnaturally sweet, in the plains; and bitter in the basins and lowlands where nitre effloresces and rain has had time to become tainted.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • In making glass to be used for mirrors, a considerable portion of sodium sulphate is used, and in annealing, this is partly reduced to sodium sulphide, which effloresces on the surface of the glass.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 Various

  • Remember that, whether for liberty or whether for love, passion effloresces in the human being -- no matter when, where, or how -- with every spring's return.

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • His religion grows up, effloresces into the ideas and forms of poetry as naturally, as noiselessly, as beautifully as the life of the unseen seed finds its way up into the “bright consummate flower.”

    Spare Hours John Brown 1846

  • Of which Phenomenon, when secret existence becoming public effloresces on the street, the philosophical cause-and-effect is not so easy to find.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Sulphat of soda liquefies by heat, and effloresces in the air.

    Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments 1813

  • It most commonly occurs as a crystalline heptahydrate which readily effloresces to form a white powder, the monohydrate.

    Find Me A Cure 2009

  • Let’s revamp the casting call in the sky, see whose talent effloresces.

    The Best American Poetry 2008 2008

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