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What is an incrustation?

What is an incrustation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
  2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
  3. A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
  4. Anything inlaid or embedded.
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Various attempts have been made to remove the incrustation by raising the bronze to a red heat.
A white incrustation called efflorescence is often found on the surface of interior masonry walls.
Old, toxic fecal matter and incrustation including mucus, begin to break loose, thereafter increasing peristalsis and water assimilation.
A warm thick solution of glue should be spread upon the incrustation covering the bronze.
From the crest of the upper terrace runs back a plateau of silicious incrustation covering 300 to 400 acres.
It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus.

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