incrustation
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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.
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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.
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And at such moments, Citizen Judges, everything personal, all the personal incrustation, all rancor, pride and a number of other things, fall away, disappear.
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Zaratite, zar′a-tīt, n. a hydrous carbonate of nickel, found usually as an incrustation on chromite.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
It is well to recall at this point that if the calcareous incrustation of the water-jacket or the branch pipes should hinder the free circulation of water, cleaning is, of course, necessary.