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Discover LudwigThe word "encrustation" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a hard outer layer or coating that forms on a surface, often due to the accumulation of minerals or other materials. Example: "The encrustation of salt on the rocks was a clear sign of the area's high salinity." Alternatives include "coating" or "layering."
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encrustation
noun
An incrustation
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They view the common market as a pearl surrounded by a dismal encrustation of European bureaucracy and regulation.
Approaches in either case range from light brushing to removal or reduction of hard encrustation by surgical scalpel.
Its Drill Hall, a raw industrial cavern with the booming acoustics of a Gothic cathedral, has no encrustation of classical tradition, although grand concerts happened there in the late nineteenth century.
Slowly, slowly, day by quick day, her torso was wrapped in a stony encrustation, like a corselet.
What Bergson deplores is encrustation — the way in which we dry and stiffen up, taking ourselves, our poses, and our beliefs so seriously that they sap us of pliability, poise, and goodwill.
Most of these teachers are supported by a baroque system of funding--from city, state and federal coffers--which has combined with union rules to create an encrustation of programs that together don't make any sense.
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However, even cereals spared sugar-encrustation can cause undesirable upset in the body's sugar levels.
It has got rid of expensive encrustations such as the athletics and PhD programmes and introduced year-round courses.
Gerard, writing before the migration pattern of birds was understood, declared that geese emerged from the encrustations on the bark of barnacle trees.
But hoardings along the huge construction site on the Corniche show that Mr Nouvel was inspired in the design of the museum itself by the rose-shaped encrustations of salt crystals that are to be found in the desert.In between there is Mathaf, an embryo project opened on December 30th that aims to give modern art a wider audience in the Arab world.
Others, particularly in the class Demospongiae, are shapeless, or amorphous, masses that form thin encrustations on objects or are cushion shaped.
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