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Meanings of incrustation in English
Usage of incrustation in English
1
An incrustation of calcareous and animal matter, coating the tidal-rocks at Ascension.
2
It might be a moss, or it might be a mineral incrustation.
3
Found abundantly the white incrustation on the surface of the soil.
4
On the ground, blotched fungi and a red-brown incrustation became frequent.
5
They are reduced to metallic particles, but give no incrustation, viz.
6
The incrustation varies in thickness in different years: in 1831 it was unusually thick.
7
An incrustation, smelling of sulphur, has been deposited by the water on the stones.
8
This incrustation can be easily distinguished from that of zinc.
9
If this incrustation be heated under the reducing flame, it disappears with a blue flame.
10
There was no saline incrustation, and no palmellæ found.
11
And intelligence was there, dwelling in a planet-wide incrustation of crystals and microscopic metal threads.
12
The surrounding plain is barren, in places marshy, and often covered with an incrustation of salt.
13
The casemates are so damp, that their interior is covered constantly with a thick nitrous incrustation.
14
Gathered some of the white incrustation on sand in a marsh west of Long Island Railroad depot.
15
No gas escapes from it, but a white incrustation covers the stones over which the water flows.
16
A white incrustation appears upon the charcoal, and the metallic globules are covered with small white crystals.
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