efflorescence

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“View Finding” is not an indiscriminate hodgepodge, but a small demonstration of proliferating photographic techniques, the applications to which they can be put, and the Walther Collection’s engagement with this efflorescence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

On the salvaged tiles alone, you can find salt efflorescence, water stains, fretting, lichen, smears of soot, scratches and gashes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Each time I drive past it, I see the growing snow-white patch of efflorescence salts.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

An efflorescence of capitalism at home and overseas followed, and with it the beginnings of a colonial empire.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

Between 3200 and 2500 B.C., large-scale public buildings, the temple at Huari- canga among them, rose up in at least seven settlements on the Peruvian coast—an extraordinary efflorescence for that time and place.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann