Deliquescent vs. Efflorescence

Deliquescentadjective

Seeming to melt away.

Deliquescentadjective

(chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.

Deliquescentadjective

(botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

Deliquescentadjective

Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.

Deliquescentadjective

Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

Deliquescentadjective

Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

Deliquescentadjective

(especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

Efflorescencenoun

(chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.

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(botany) The production of flowers.

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(construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.

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(geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.

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(metaphorical) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.

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(pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.

Efflorescencenoun

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

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The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.

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the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

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any red eruption of the skin

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the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

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a powdery deposit on a surface

Efflorescence

In chemistry, efflorescence (which means in French) is the migration of a salt to the surface of a porous material, where it forms a coating. The essential process involves the dissolving of an internally held salt in water, or occasionally in another solvent.