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Definition of Effloresce

1. Verb. Come into or as if into flower. "These manifestations effloresced in the past"

2. Verb. Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.

3. Verb. Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation.

Definition of Effloresce

1. v. i. To blossom forth.

Definition of Effloresce

1. Verb. (intransitive) To burst into bloom; to flower. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive chemistry) To change from being crystalline to being powdery by losing water of crystallization. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To become covered with powder. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Effloresce

1. [v -RESCED, -RESCING, -RESCES]

Medical Definition of Effloresce

1. 1. To blossom forth. 2. To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, especially. 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 in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. Origin: L. Efflorescere to bloom, blossom; ex + florescere to begin to blossom, incho, fr. Florere to blossom, fr. Flos a flower. See Flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effloresce

effigiates effigiating effigiation effigiations effigies effigy effigylike effing and blinding efflagitate efflate

efflation efflations effleurage effleurages effloresce (current term) effloresced efflorescence efflorescences efflorescencies efflorescency

efflorescent effloresces efflorescing efflower effluence effluences effluencies effluency effluent

Literary usage of Effloresce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"... do not effloresce owe this property to the fact that the tension of the aqueous vapor emitted by them at ordinary temperatures is always inferior to ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"cake; spec, effloresce, over- crust. cry, t). г. 1. Referring to persons: spec. shout, exclaim, clamor, call, blare, bray (spec, or humorous), chuckle, ..."

3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... matter-of-fact and practical in its nature to effloresce into sentimentality. As marriage is the basal principle of the true family, it will be proper ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"... than those of yttrium-sulphate, and effloresce at about 60°, crumbling to a white powder. (Mosander.) Similar resulta have been obtained by Popp (Ann. ..."

5. New Remedies edited by Horatio Charles Wood, Frederick Albert Castle, Charles Rice (1877)
"... which effloresce in the air, melt at 36° C., and are easily soluble in water or alcohol. We are therefore enabled to % precipitate the alkaloids even in ..."

6. The Expert Calciminer: Containing Full Directions for Mixing and Applying by Albanis Ashmun Kelly (1912)
"... Treating Walls that effloresce.—Some plaster walls throw out considerable saltpeter, and here are some tried and true remedies, given by practical men ..."

7. The American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia by Boericke & Tafel (1883)
"Magnesium phosphate dissolves easily in dilute acids; its crystals effloresce in warm air, and when heated to 100° C. (212° ..."

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