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
These processes of compaction and cementation are called lithification.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
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
The grain size, sorting, compaction, and degree of cementation of the rocks all influence primary porosity.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
If the cementation be continued too long, the steel acquires a darkish fracture, it is more fusible, and incapable of welding.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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