cementation
Americannoun
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the act, process, or result of cementing.
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Metallurgy. the heating of two substances in contact in order to effect some change in one of them, especially, the formation of steel by heating iron in powdered charcoal.
noun
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the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
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the process of cementing or being cemented
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civil engineering the injection of cement grout into fissured rocks to make them watertight
Etymology
Origin of cementation
Example Sentences
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"We're most interested to find clues as to the aqueous geochemistry which resulted in cementation of the sedimentary rocks," he told the BBC this week.
From BBC
In the cementation process, bars of wrought iron are imbedded in powdered charcoal in a fireclay trough, and kept at a high temperature in a furnace for several days.
From Project Gutenberg
Their hardness and the degree of cementation may be tested by means of a file.
From Project Gutenberg
He was familiar with amalgamation, cupellation, the separation of gold and silver by cementation with salt and by nitric acid.
From Project Gutenberg
The conversion of the silver into the chloride may be effected by means of salt—the “cementation” process—or other chlorides, or by free chlorine—Miller’s process.
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