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Effervesce   Listen
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Effervesce  v. i.  (past & past part. effervesced; pres. part. effervescing)  
1.
To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.
2.
To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.





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"Effervesce" Quotes from Famous Books



... 10 per cent. of nitrogenous and hydrogenated carbon, 8 per cent. of carbonate of lime, 78 per cent. of phosphate of lime, besides phosphate of magnesia, sulphate of lime, soluble salts, etc. Before using, it should be treated with dilute hydrochloric acid until it does not effervesce any more. The bone coal is then left to stand for 24 or 30 hours and at the end of this time is washed with distilled water until the wash water no longer reddens a blue piece of litmus paper, i.e., until every trace of hydrochloric acid has been removed from ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various


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