Usage of "incrustation"

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encostración

A hard outer layer that covers something.

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Uso de incrustation en inglés

An incrustation of calcareous and animal matter, coating the tidal-rocks at Ascension. 
 Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete 

It might be a moss, or it might be a mineral incrustation. 
 Rogues 

Found abundantly the white incrustation on the surface of the soil. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 

On the ground, blotched fungi and a red-brown incrustation became frequent. 
 The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 

They are reduced to metallic particles, but give no incrustation, viz. 
 A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B... 

The incrustation varies in thickness in different years: in 1831 it was unusually thick. 
 Volcanic Islands 

An incrustation, smelling of sulphur, has been deposited by the water on the stones. 
 A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi... 

This incrustation can be easily distinguished from that of zinc. 
 A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B... 

If this incrustation be heated under the reducing flame, it disappears with a blue flame. 
 A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B... 

There was no saline incrustation, and no palmellæ found. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 

And intelligence was there, dwelling in a planet-wide incrustation of crystals and microscopic metal threads. 
 The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 

The surrounding plain is barren, in places marshy, and often covered with an incrustation of salt. 
 The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5: ... 

The casemates are so damp, that their interior is covered constantly with a thick nitrous incrustation. 
 Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. 

Gathered some of the white incrustation on sand in a marsh west of Long Island Railroad depot. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 

No gas escapes from it, but a white incrustation covers the stones over which the water flows. 
 The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes 

A white incrustation appears upon the charcoal, and the metallic globules are covered with small white crystals. 
 A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B... 