Literary notes about effervesce (AI summary)
The term effervesce is employed in literature both to describe literal chemical reactions and to evoke vivid emotional or situational imagery. In scientific or technical contexts, authors use it to detail the bubbling reaction of substances—illustrating, for instance, a powder as it foams when exposed to acid [1] or how a material bubbles with carbonic acid [2, 3, 4]. In a more metaphorical sense, the word captures the dynamic rise of energy or emotion, as seen when a character’s vitality suddenly surges [5] or when suppressed anger begins to spill over, much like a reaction bubbling into life [6, 7]. The varied use of effervesce thus enriches descriptions, whether mapping a chemical process or the fleeting yet explosive spark of human feeling [8, 9, 10].
- If you pour an acid and an alkali together—like vinegar and soda—they will "fizz" or effervesce, and at the same time neutralize or "kill" each other.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson - The gas that bubbled up from your lemonade was carbon dioxid (CO 2 ), and this is the gas that usually bubbles up out of things when they effervesce.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne - This will effervesce during the time the acid is dissolving the zinc.
— from Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe - This crust will effervesce if a little acid is added to it.
— from The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu (William Mattieu) Williams - His youthful health and strength seemed at this moment to effervesce, so that he felt a new buoyancy.
— from The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesMasterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 - Then, embittered by misery, men’s minds begin to ferment and effervesce, and what inevitably follows is the overthrow of a realm.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley - “Ah!” he sighed to himself, as his blood seemed to effervesce, and a thrill ran through his nerves, “who could be a coward at a time like this?”
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn - Miss Birks, however, who was forty-five, and wise in her generation, did not interfere, and the fun downstairs continued to effervesce.
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil - I suppose your love will effervesce in six months, or less.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - His policy, therefore, was to stir their feelings, and then withdraw to watch their feelings effervesce.
— from The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa by Paul Barron Watson
