effloresce

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Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”:

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2015

But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

In oil, verdigris is permanent with respect to light and air, but moisture and an impure atmosphere change its colour, and cause it to effloresce or rise to the surface through the oil.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

This is called "water of crystallization"; if it passes into the air by evaporation, the crystal crumbles to a powder- and is then said to effloresce.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

A great deal of chemical action then commences, salts of various kinds effloresce on the surface, and the mass becomes hard.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles