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
When researchers examined the dinosaur's limb bones, they identified numerous mineralized red blood cells inside vascular canals, the tiny passages that once contained blood vessels.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
"Scotty's rib contains a vast network of mineralized blood vessels that has never before been observed in a fossil."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
“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
Drilling delivered high gold grades, strong widths, and mineralized extensions, says analyst Mike Millikan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
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
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
There being no reason to suppose deposition from solution, are we not under the necessity of inferring, that the mineralizing process depends on a small motion and separation of the particles of the original compound?
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 bichloride of mercury.
From Short-Stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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
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