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Incrustation

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incrustation
1. The deposition of materials on the interior of pipes, vessels, or equipment from chemicals in the conveyed liquid.
2. A decorative skin or coating of rich materials applied over commoner construction.
Incrustation 

a crust (in the form of mounds) on the surface of the refractory linings of shaft and tube metallurgical furnaces; it usually forms as a result of certain deviations from standard in the smelting process (low quality of raw materials, uneven run of furnace, and so on). Incrustation should be distinguished from slag lining, which is intentionally created on the interior (working) surface of certain metallurgical units during the smelting process.
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Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end.
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