| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Effloresce.[Websters]
2. To have skimmed or abraded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be flowered, granulated or grained. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have grazed, scraped or flayed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb effloresce.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (effloresce) | 1. Come into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past".[Wordnet]. 2. Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.[Wordnet]. 3. Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation.[Wordnet]. 4. Burst forth into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past".[Wordnet]. 5. To blossom forth.[Websters]. 6. To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.[Websters]. 7. 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.[Websters]. 8. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: efflorescing, effloresced, effloresces, efflorescer, efflorescers, efflorescingly and efflorescedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"EFFLORESCED" is a common misspelling or typo for: effloresces. |
Date "EFFLORESCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1857. (references) |
Specialty Definition: effloresce
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] efflores'.. | 2: [Verb] In chimistry, to form a mealy powder on the surface; to become pulverulent or dusty on the surface. Substances effloresce by losing their water of crystallization. Those salts whose crystals effloresce, belong to the class which is most soluble, and crystalize by cooling.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Administration | (Chemistry) To become a powder by losing water of crystallization, as when a hydrated crystal is exposed to air. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (intransitive) To become covered with powder. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To burst into bloom; to flower. (references) | 3: [Verb] (intransitive, chemistry) To change from being crystalline to being powdery by losing water of crystallization. (references) |
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