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effervescence|ɛfəˈvɛsəns|
[f. L. effervescent-em, pr. pple. of effervescĕre; see prec. and -ence. Cf. F. effervescence.]
†1. The action of boiling up; heated agitation of the particles of a fluid. Obs.
1651Biggs New Disp. 164 Black blood..or lurid, green, &c. do not signifie the corruption of it, but are symbolizations of only..its effervescence, or fermentall turbulency. 1676Grew Lect. Luctation i. §4 Effervescence; then and only properly so called, when they [the bodies mixed] produce some degree of heat. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 160 The effervescence of the Fever must be permitted. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 44 By proper Internals..allay the Effervescence of the Blood.
2. (Without necessarily implying heat.) The action of bubbling up as if boiling; the tumultuous rise of bubbles of gas from a fluid; esp. as the result of chemical action.
1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 87 An effervescence..with some potent Acid. 1695New Light Chirurg. put out 63 'Tis an Acid, because of its Effervescence with Volatile Salts. 1744Berkeley Siris §132 That effervescence observed in the mixture of acids and alkalies. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xvi. (1849) 151 A tall glass half full of champagne cannot be made to ring as long as the effervescence lasts. 1844–57G. Bird Urin. Deposits 22 If brisk effervescence follows..the urea has been converted into carbonate of ammonia.
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1748Johnson L.P. Wks. 1816 X. 310 The effervescence of invention had subsided. 1791Heroic Ep. to J. Priestley in Poet. Regist. (1808) 397 The weekly burthen of their drowsy din Is..Mere effervescence of an acid soul. c1800K. White Rem. (1837) 400 An effervescence of the sublimer affections. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I 167 The first effervescence of boyish passions. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. lii. 55 A fellow..who was in an effervescence of surprise. |