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Word: efflorescence
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Noun:
- botany The production of flowers.
- 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.
- (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.
- (''metaphorical'') Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
- pathology A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Source: Wiktionary
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