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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According to Jean-Paul Raynal, who co-directed the program during the key excavation period, repeated changes in sea level, wind-driven sedimentation, and rapid cementation of coastal sands created ideal conditions for preserving fossils and archaeological evidence.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026
The processes of cementation, compaction, and ultimately lithification occur within the realm of diagenesis, which includes the processes that turn organic material into fossils.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
These processes of compaction and cementation are called lithification.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
These iron oxides coat and bind mineral grains together into sedimentary rocks in a process called cementation and often give these rocks a dominant color.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
We first find mention of parting with sulphur in the 12th century, with nitric acid prior to the 14th century, by antimony sulphide prior to the 15th century, and by cementation with nitre by Agricola.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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