effloresce

1. v. i. To blossom forth. Source: opted

2. v. i. To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce. Source: opted

3. v. i. To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. Source: opted

4. v. come into or as if into flower Source: wordnet

5. v. assume crystalline form; become crystallized Source: wordnet

6. v. become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation Source: wordnet

7. 1. To blossom forth. Carlyle. 2. (Chem.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce. 3. To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. Source: webster

8. To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy,or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from theloss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts,and many others, effloresce. Source: adambom

9. v. come into or as if into flower v. become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation Source: ecdict

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