Bloom

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Bloom or blooming may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology

  • Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant
  • Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system
  • Jellyfish bloom, a collective noun for a large group of jellyfish
  • Epicuticular wax bloom, a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax, occurring on the surface of many fruits
  • Bloom syndrome, an autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predisposes the patient to a wide variety of cancer

Computing

Art conservation

  • Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting oil pastels
  • Saponification in art conservation
    , a chalky white efflorescence on old oil paintings
  • Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting

Other science and technology

  • Bloom (bloomery)
    (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery
  • Bloom (casting)
    , a semi-finished metal casting
  • Bloom (sulfur)
    , the migration of sulfur to the exterior of a rubber
  • Bloom (test), a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin
  • Blooming (CCD)
    , an effect that happens when a pixel in a CCD image sensor is overloaded
  • Blooming (directed-energy weapon)
    , an effect of laser beams and particle beams in the air
  • Chocolate bloom, the appearance of white coating on chocolate
  • Thermal blooming, an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams

People

Places

United States

Arts and entertainment

Music

Artists

Albums

Songs

Organisations

Other uses

  • Bloom's taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives
  • "Blooming", a less offensive version of the expletive attributive bloody

See also

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