incrustation

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And at such moments, Citizen Judges, everything personal, all the personal incrustation, all rancor, pride and a number of other things, fall away, disappear.

From Time Magazine Archive

The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they go beyond rococo incrustation into a domain of absolute theatricality.

From Time Magazine Archive

From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air.

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The surface generally, both under the incrustation, and where freed from it, was of a variegated color, mottled with spots of green, dirty white, and red.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The solution from copper ores would deposit some sort of green incrustation, of carbonates mostly.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius