Leaching vs Efflorescence - What's the difference?
leaching | efflorescence |
The process by which something is leached.
* 2012 , Brian Morse, Cold Regions Engineering 2012
Liquid that leaches.
* Popular Science
(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.
(botany) The production of flowers.
(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.
(geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
(metaphorical ) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
(pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
As nouns the difference between leaching and efflorescence
is that leaching is the process by which something is leached while efflorescence is 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.As a verb leaching
is present participle of lang=en.leaching
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(en noun)- The leachings were performed in a controlled atmosphere chamber in four different steps
- One set of plants was watered with distilled water, while to the other set was added in addition small amounts of leachings , containing only a trace of nitrogen, from a cultivated field.
