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n. - The property of giving off bubbles; The process of bubbling as gas escapes.

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  • For the rest, that there is 'effervescence' who doubts?
  • The "effervescence" he refers to was chlorine, which he proceeded to confine in a suitable vessel and examine more fully.
  • The effervescence which is appearing in all quarters, and the desertion of their followers, will frown them into silence -- at least for a while.
  • - a kind of effervescence, the bubbling up of irrepressible energy.
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