encrustation

We want to remove the encrustation that's built over the years.

It continues to come and go, its original black turned to white by salt encrustation.

Around the edge of the door were encrustations that sealed it.

Rolling back the bureaucratic encrustations will be the work of decades.

She went to a small window and tried to open it, but encrustations of ice prevented her.

From this height it looked like an encrustation of algae.

But every few years somebody has to come in and clean out the encrustations that inevitably develop.

A simpleton encrustation so low as to be an insult.

The cyborg rose like an unlikely natural encrustation behind him.

"Aside from the encrustation on the lips, I would say it's in good shape," she said.

He rubbed his fingers over the ring and wiped away some of the encrustation.

A minor but recurring theme, in terms of technique, is encrustation.

The encrustation of bulbs turned solid mass into ethereal form.

A good deal of the encrustations had been chipped off and someone was polishing the metal.

The encrustation could easily have covered the cracks between the stones."

"Could there be any inscriptions under the encrustation, something the archaeologists might have missed?"

Its sides are white with encrustations of salt.

There was also what seemed at first to be a thin encrustation of blood fringing the steel on one edge.

He slammed the hammer against the hull, knocking away sheets of encrustation.

Another clue to the authenticity of buried works is the encrustation formed by dirt.

Even the accumulation of silt and encrustation was slight.

She liked this chamber because it received more sun than other levels farther down in the reef encrustation.

We won't know until we clean off the encrustation.

There are remains of seven amphoras from which a black encrustation can be seen.

In this instance, Molly suspected that the stone pine would not survive the encrustation.