Hypertext Webster Gateway: "effervescence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Effervescence \Ef`fer*ves"cence\, Effervescency
\Ef`fer*ves"cen*cy\, n. [Cf. F. effervescence.]
A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which
takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous
form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the
effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
effervescence
n 1: the process of bubbling as gas escapes
2: the property of giving off bubbles [syn: {bubbliness}, {frothiness}]
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