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noun

Efflorescence n.

(Bot.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

(Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

(Chem.)

(a)

The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.

(b)

The powder or crust thus formed.

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Etymology of 'Efflorescence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Efflorescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... total depravity to cheer up, and when they think of the mercy of God as exhibited in their salvation, and the justice of God as illustrated by the damnation of others, their hearts burst into a kind of efflorescence of joy. ...

— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll

... at all of her own beauty. She had no comprehension whatever of beauty of the body, and she could slash her beautiful lines to rags with hat-brims and trimmings. Thank Heaven! a natural refinement, a natural timidity, and her extremely slender purse kept her from the real Smithie efflorescence! Poor, simple, beautiful, kindly limited Marion! Now that I am forty-five, I can look back at her with all my old admiration and none of my old bitterness with a new affection and not a scrap of passion, and take her part against the equally stupid, drivingly-energetic, sensuous, intellectual sprawl ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... followed. The pool into which the duck had fallen was covered with a green scum; and on throwing a piece of wood into it, the green changed into violet, as if some chemical product had been mixed with it. The ground itself was covered with a white efflorescence, which stuck to our feet, and made us slip ...

— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston

... not to be. To persist or not to persist, that is not the question; neither is it to endure or not to endure. The issue, is it eternal not-being? If not, what, then, is being? For overhead the eternal radiance of the snow gleams unfailing, it receives the efflorescence of all life and is unchanged, the issue is bright and immortal, the snowy not-being. ...

— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence

... from the hills to where an army of Arabs will tear them out of the cars to dry, amid clouds of tawny dust. One might well grow crazy at the idea of the primary difficulties involved in grafting upon the desert soil this ordered mechanical efflorescence, this frenzied blossoming of ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

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