Definitions from Wiktionary (effloresce)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chemistry) Senses relating to chemistry.
▸ verb:  Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
▸ verb:  Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.
▸ verb:  Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).



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