incrustation

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From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air.

From Time Magazine Archive

The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they go beyond rococo incrustation into a domain of absolute theatricality.

From Time Magazine Archive

And at such moments, Citizen Judges, everything personal, all the personal incrustation, all rancor, pride and a number of other things, fall away, disappear.

From Time Magazine Archive

The incrustation and rust removed, the metal is found bright beneath; in some places considerably corroded, in others very slightly.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The piping between the mixing and storage tanks is of galvanised iron of generous dimension so as to compensate for incrustation.

From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph