Look up: Bloom

1. BLOOM
   Cocoa butter, the fatty part of chocolate, can solidify into different crystalline forms at different temperatures. This means that untempered chocolate is vulnerable to changes in temperature. Chocolate must be tempered to stabilize it before use, or crystals may form, causing what is called "bloom...
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2. Bloom
   A whitish coating on chocolate, caused by separated cocoa butter.
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3. Bloom
   A natural mealy or waxy coating covering the leaves of some house plants.
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4. Bloom
   A proliferation of algae and/or higher aquatic plants in a body of water; often related to pollution, especially when pollutants accelerate growth.
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5. bloom
   An indication of freshness and quality as beef turns bright red when exposed to oxygen.
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6. Bloom
   (phytoplankton) A population burst of phytoplankton that remains within a defined part of the water column
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7. bloom
   [n] - the best time of youth 2. [n] - a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health 3. [v] - produce or yield flowers
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8. Bloom
   An all over film of opaque dullness.Mainly found on Irish and English glass.Bands of bloom may be found encircling hollow wares a little distant below the rims. This bloom is not to be confused with the milkiness found inside old decanters.
   Found on http://www.glamorganantiques.co.uk/gloss
   
   
9. Bloom
   Generally a rolled product from an ingot generally greater than 36 square inches in area, this is the first operation in the production of bars or structurals. See also: Ingot.
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10. Bloom
    A powdery, whitish coating on leaves, stems, or fruit.
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11. bloom
    a thin layer of waxlike material which covers the skins of grapes Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • A defect in a painted or varnished finish,in which a cloudy film appears on the treated surface.It may be caused by the application of the coating m...
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12. bloom
    Dull, matt surface on old glassware. This may be caused by too much alkali in the glass, by the presence of sulphurous smoke during reheating, or by wearing away of decoration such a gilding.
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13. Bloom
    Bloom noun [ Middle English blome , from Icelandic bl...m , bl...mi ; akin to Swedish blom , Goth. bl...ma , Old Saxon bl...mo , Dutch bloem , Old High German bluomo , bluoma , German
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14. Bloom
    Bloom intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bloomed ; present participle & verbal noun Blooming .] 1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower. ...
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15. Bloom
    Bloom transitive verb 1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [ R.] « Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker. » 2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [ R.] Milton. « Whil...
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16. Bloom
    Bloom noun [ Anglo-Saxon bl...ma a mass or lump, īsenes bl...ma a lump or wedge of iron.] (Metal.) (a) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usual...
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17. bloom
    A blossom, the flower of a plant, an expanded bud, the opening of flowers in general, leaves, flowers, or fruits. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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18. bloom
    blush noun a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
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19. bloom
    bloom of youth noun the best time of youth
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20. bloom
    blossom 1 flower verb produce or yield flowers; `The cherry tree bloomed`
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21. bloom
    blossom noun reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
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22. Bloom
    • (n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. • (n.) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. • (n.) A large bar of steel formed direc...
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23. bloom
    (from the article `iron processing`) ...of the ore then occurred, but, since primitive furnaces were incapable of reaching temperatures higher than 1,150° C (2,100° F), the normal ... ...and using foot bellows to intensify the heat, and even in these furnaces the heat was not sufficient to reduce the ore completely to molten met...
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24. bloom
    
    • the organic process of bearing flowers
    • reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
    • the best time of youth
    • a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
    • the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
    • a powdery deposit on a surface
    
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25. bloom
    contamination of the stamper, whose face slowly becomes covered with a whitish film, which is transferred to the record NOTE - This gives rise to visible and audible effects.
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/