mineralize
Americanverb
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to impregnate (organic matter, water, etc) with a mineral substance
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to convert (such matter) into a mineral; petrify
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(of gases, vapours, etc, in magma) to transform (a metal) into an ore
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The leftover carbon dioxide will be stored deep beneath the North Sea in sedimentary bedrock and will gradually mineralize over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
It takes recycled CO2, supplied by contractors who capture it from factory exhaust, and injects the gas into a mix so that it can infiltrate and mineralize in the concrete.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2021
“We have the sea, the mountains, the rainforest, the lagoons, in close distances on lands that are mineralized by the volcanoes. These create ingredients that are unique to the state.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Today, nearly all sponges have mineralized spicules, which might suggest that skeletons played a key role in their early success.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
Her mineralized vertebra of a juvenile Jurassic ichthyosaur exudes: “Now I am a treasure for you to love—a part of me to call your own.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Five vertebrae have been recovered, each partly mineralized, which helped preserve them.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
The limestone that elsewhere gives Iowa its hard mineralized water was obliterated and replaced by the shocked basement rocks that so puzzled the water driller in 1912.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
And mineralizing a trillion metric tons of CO2 would consume only about 0.03 percent of that oxygen.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2021
The mineralizing process, says Dr. Davy, which has produced these new combinations, has, in general, penetrated very little into the substance of the helmet.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
In some instances, alumina, which is likewise deposited from the hot waters, is the mineralizing material.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood, which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the Bi-chloride of Mercury.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Nathaniel Parker Willis
During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood, which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the bi-chloride of mercury.
From International Short Stories American by Various
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