Exfoliation
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Exfoliation has several meanings:
It is the loss of leaves
- Exfoliation (botany)Exfoliation (botany)Exfoliation means the removal or loss of leaves from a plant. It is used both to describe the loss of a leaves as a natural part of a plant’s life cycle or because of some trauma or outside cause Exfoliation (from the term "foliate", meaning “related to leaves”) means the removal or loss of...
describes the loss of leaves (or, in some cases, pieces of bark) from a plant. - Exfoliation (cosmetology)Exfoliation (cosmetology)Exfoliation involves the removal of the oldest dead skin cells on the skin's outermost surface, and has been used for many years to help maintain skin. Exfoliation is involved in the process of all facials, during microdermabrasion or chemical peels at medical spas...
, is a cosmetic technique aimed at removing dead skin cells from the face and body. - Exfoliation dome, a granite dome,
- Exfoliation (geology)Exfoliation (geology)Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock often leading to erosion of concentric slabs.- General characteristics of exfoliation joints :* Commonly follow topography ....
is a weathering process. - Exfoliation (material science) is the process responsible for breaking up particle aggregates.
It is the loss of leaves