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Efflorescent

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

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Mature 84% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Florescence 74% connected

A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

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Florescence 74% connected

A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

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Abloom 92% connected

In or into bloom; in a blooming state.

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Alembroth noun · 78% connection

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimu…

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Alum shale unknown · 78% connection

A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effl…

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Answerable adjective · 78% connection

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an…

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Atomic number 11 noun · 78% connection

a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…

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Base noun · 78% connection

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- a…

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Bay salt unknown · 78% connection

Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline s…

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Bittern adjective · 78% connection

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it conta…

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Corn verb · 78% connection

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or…

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Deflagrable adjective · 78% connection

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

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Deprivable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.

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Drab noun · 78% connection

A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

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Effloresce verb · 78% connection

To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss…

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Effloresced imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Effloresce

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Efflorescing p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Effloresce

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Emser salt noun · 78% connection

salt produced from the mineral water of Bad Ems, used as a medicine for diseases of the upper respiratory tract.; "Gargling with Emser…

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Fallible adjective · 78% connection

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

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Fast verb · 78% connection

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

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Fugitive adjective · 78% connection

Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and…

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