incrust
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Fuses and gives off dense white fumes, which thickly incrust the charcoal and color the flame blue immediately beyond the assay.
The waters which rise from springs passing through marl or limestone are replete with calcareous earth, and when thrown over morasses they deposit this earth and incrust or consolidate the morass.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
"True," said Mohi, "they absorb the oil of the smoke, instead of allowing it offensively to incrust."
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
It's just the same principle as those lime springs that incrust things with lime.
From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton