efflorescence
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French efflorescence, from Latin efflōrēscō, which was from ex- (“out”) + flōrēscō (“to blossom”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌɛfləˈɹɛsəns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]efflorescence (countable and uncountable, plural efflorescences)
- (chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
- (botany) The production of flowers.
- (construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
- (geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
- (figurative) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
- 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
- 1919, a time when African American hopes for a just future following their service in World War I were dashed by violent reassertions of white supremacy, including the efflorescence and expansion of the KKK into the Midwestern and northwestern U.S.
- (pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]formation of a powdery surface
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production of flowers
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rapid flowering of a culture
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eruption on the skin
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned derivation from Latin efflōrēscere with the suffix -ence.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]efflorescence f (plural efflorescences)
References
[edit]- ^ “efflorescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “efflorescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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