What's the difference between deliquescent and efflorescence?

Deliquescent


Definition:

  • (a.) Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
  • (a.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is a deliquescent chemical widely used for a variety of procedures.
  • (2) The process, known as deliquescence, is seen in the Atacama desert, where the resulting damp patches are the only known place for microbes to live.
  • (3) But as they talk, we can feel that deliquescing fish.
  • (4) This paper extends earlier work from this laboratory concerning the sorption kinetics of water vapor on deliquescent water-soluble substances to mixtures of these solids.
  • (5) It is concluded that water-soluble deliquescent substances, normally encountered in pharmaceutical dosage forms, rapidly form saturated aqueous solutions in the aqueous film formed as water vapor uptake proceeds, and that the water uptake rate can be predicted a priori from known and experimentally determinable parameters using the heat transport model.
  • (6) Their walls were deliquescent, but some of them were rather persistent.
  • (7) Nephelometric sensing of the deliquescence of ammonium sulfate produced by the reaction of sulfuric acid or ammonium bisulfate aerosol with ammonia provides a means for detecting these substances in air.
  • (8) In group II multifocal deliquescent necrosis in the liver, numerous, small perivascular and extravascular foci of coagulative-deliquescent necrosis with the inflammatory and the resorptive reactions were noted.
  • (9) Dulwich exhibits Hero and Leandro , painted like those landscape panels in 1985 – their dribbles and fingerworking here orchestrated into a deliquescent collapse of mist-greys and cerise.
  • (10) Local crude ingredients are also subject to adulteration, deliquescence, and unwanted natural contaminants.
  • (11) Water vapor sorption on unground and ground samples of sodium chloride and sodium salicylate at relative humidities below RHo, that at which deliquescence is initiated, has been measured.

Efflorescence


Definition:

  • (n.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
  • (n.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
  • (n.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.
  • (n.) The powder or crust thus formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Herpetiform efflorescences appeared over the head and trunk shortly before death.
  • (2) Clinico-biological examination of 154 patients with psoriasis resulted in data showing high activity of endo- and exopeptidases in efflorescences of that dermatosis.
  • (3) These nodules were painful when pressure was applied The clinical appearance of the efflorescence was most similar to that of glomangiomas.
  • (4) In these 18 the efflorescence was also examined histologically.
  • (5) As zinc sulphate has efflorescent properties, the effect of humidity on the coated tablets was studied and physical stability tests were carried out.
  • (6) The classical combination of symptoms consists of urticariel efflorescences, bleeding of skin and lining tissue and arthralgies [8, 19].
  • (7) The history revealed that, when about 40 years of age, a coarse skin-fold and yellowish-white xanthoma-like efflorescences had been noted around her umbilicus, the inguinal regions and axillae.
  • (8) We have observed 5 such cases and, in this report, describe 2 cases in which the sudden efflorescence of many new warts was used as a sign to predict accurately the onset of involution and subsequent regression of all flat warts.
  • (9) Polymorphous light eruption (PLE) is a common disorder characterized by a delayed, abnormal response to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, with a varied morphology of itching efflorescences on sun-exposed areas of the skin.
  • (10) New insights into the pathophysiology of acne show that the most important therapeutic principle is suppression of the propionibacteria in the pilosebaceous duct since these bacteria have a key role in the genesis of the comedo and of inflammatory acne efflorescences.
  • (11) After appearance of a leutic maculo-papulous rash systemic application of Penicillin lead to a quick cessation of the cutaneous efflorescences as well as of the uveitis.
  • (12) This leads us to study the volatilisation of codeine stored in safety boxes suggest adding the mention "slightly efflorescent" to the usual characteristics of codeine found in the monography of the French Pharmacopoea as mentionned by LEBEAU and JANOT.
  • (13) Our investigation showed that the reverse is the case: the thickness of the epidermis in the psoriasis efflorescences is significantly greater than in healthy skin nearby in the same patient.
  • (14) "In the early 2000s there was this incredible efflorescence of anger and excitement .
  • (15) All the remaining changes, particularly the mutagenic and immunosuppressive effects as well as papular efflorescences on the skin, arise only as secondary phenomena.
  • (16) Characteristic efflorescence emerged during pregnancy; clinical manifestations disappeared 1-2 weeks after the disease resolution.
  • (17) The time of efflorescence was different in each pregnancy.
  • (18) Confluent vesicles flattened within 24 to 48 hours and no further efflorescences were seen.
  • (19) Both araU derivatives applied as 0.1% eyedrops suppressed the development of keratitis as monitored by the reduced number of herpes efflorescences.
  • (20) In the first days of this therapy, a characteristic local reaction of the L.p. lesions could be observed; first an edematous swelling appeared, followed by scaling and regression of efflorescences.