encrustation

[en·krə′stā·shən]

(engineering)

The buildup of slag or other material inside furnaces and kilns.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Encrustation

the phenomenon in which individual crystals or rock debris that were formed earlier are overgrown by a mineral aggregate. In encrustation the newly formed mineral is deposited in the form of granular crystalline drusoid crusts that cover fragments of brecciated ore or rock, sometimes in several layers, completely filling the cracks between the fragments. As a result, the ore (rock) assumes an encrustation texture.

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(A) Axial images of the distal tip of the device with encrustations. (B) Axial images of the distal tip of the device post resection and Holmium laser fragmentation.

Management of pyelovesical bypass device stones

The demographic characteristics of the patients, the amount of encrustation, the length of the hospital stay, and the number of treatment modalities and sessions applied are outlined in Table 1, 2.

Management of Forgotten Ureteral Stents: Relationship Between Indwelling Time and Required Treatment Approaches

The encrustation technology used positively affects the percentage of germination and seedling emergence and it does not interfer in total length, length of shoot and root of the seedlings in all the cultivars of Brachiaria sp.

Germinative potential of encrusted seed of tropical forage species/Potencial germinativo de sementes incrustadas de especies forrageiras tropicais

Similarly to biomass production, the amount of calcium carbonate encrustation on charophyte thalli is both a direct and indirect effect of primary production [14, 52].

Seasonality of water chemistry, carbonate production, and biometric features of two species of Chara in a shallow clear water lake

Stent encrustation and stone formation was seen more in the patients where stent indwelling period was more than three months as was also observed by other authors.6,17 In our study, stents remained in place for maximum of two months despite those with encrustation who had been lost to follow up.

Comparison Between Double J (DJ) Ureteral Stenting and Percutaneous Nephrostomy (PCN) in Obstructive Uropathy

However, the safe window period of stenting is probably 6-8 weeks.6 In our study, stents remained in place for maximum of two months despite those with encrustation who had been lost to follow up.

Indications and complications of double J ureteral stenting: our experience

This review concludes that most research in the previous decade has focused on understanding how catheter encrustations develop and how such encrustations may contribute to leaking/blockage of the catheter and urinary tract infection.

Leakage associated with urinary catheter usage: a design challenge

Blue to purple cryptocrystalline encrustations, also believed to be vivianite, have been found on the clay sediments of the river bank just upstream from the point bar and on gravel on the point bar.

Phosphate mineralization at Nonconnah Creek, Memphis, Tennessee

The smooth bore corrosion-free pipes minimise encrustation, ensuring low pressure drops, and have no energy-sapping thermal bridges as pipe supports are attached via the outer jacket.

Cool-Fit piping unlocks potential

NovaBay's pipeline of Aganocide compounds is being studied in numerous preclinical programs and is currently in four Phase 2 clinical trials, including for: impetigo, a highly contagious skin infection; urinary catheter bacterial biofilm blockage, encrustation and associated infection; conjunctivitis, or pink eye infection; and acne.

NOVABAY UNVEILS RESULTS FROM NEW ANT-INFECTIVES

The boutique will offer signature Haviland porcelain collections including this season's art-deco inspired Cible, the Ritz Imperial dinnerware set and the newest encrustation and relief introductions in a new, sandy beige color.

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