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ID | Word | Wordtype | Definition |
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49841 | Effloresce | v. i. | 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. |
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Bass | Bema | Gnomonic | Self-imparting | Matter |