efflorescence
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Efflorescence does look strange, and it can appear in a short amount of time.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022
Efflorescence is due to certain salts leaching out of the concrete and accumulating into thin layers where the water evaporates on the surface.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
She had an Efflorescence which very suddenly disappeared: at this Time I was called in; but the Humour had retreated to the Breast, and rendered her Death inevitable.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
This great wave of decoration and elaboration that has gone about the world, this Efflorescence, has of course laid hold of that.
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Efflorescence of Luxury has come out: for men have wealth; nay new-got wealth; and under the Terror you durst not dance except in rags.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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Power Suffix: -escence
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