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the froth where the ocean writes its tantrums in disappearing white ink
means Spume is the foam or froth churned up on the surface of the sea, especially the white scud blown off breaking waves.
from From Latin 'spuma,' meaning foam — a cousin of the German 'Feim' and possibly distantly related to English 'foam' itself, all tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root for froth. It drifted into English in the late Middle Ages, keeping its Latin shape almost intact, as if the word, like the foam, never quite settled.
- chemistry
- Dissolved proteins whipped by waves into bubbly foam
- sea snot
- Often built from decayed algae and plankton
- poet's pet
- Beloved by Yeats, Hopkins, and seafaring verse
- lifespan
- Survives mere seconds before air escapes
- can stink
- Algal-bloom spume sometimes reeks of rot
for instance
white river spume idaho — salmon river tributary creates dramatic spume clouds at maloney rapids during spring snowmelt
niagara falls mist cloud — the massive spray and foam at the base of niagara falls, visible from miles away