silicify
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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This material, as is well known, is very liable to disintegrate, and the remedy is to silicify it.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 by Chambers, William
Between the loam and the Tertiary formation there is usually a deposit of stratified sand and gravel, containing large fragments of silicified corals and the wreck of older Palaeozoic rocks.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
These were petrified trees, eleven being silicified, and from thirty to forty converted into coarsely-crystallized white calcareous spar.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
From this resemblance I expected to find silicified wood, which is generally characteristic of those formations.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
That was the only natural fuel on Ullr; there was too much silica on Ullr and not enough of anything else; what would be coal-seams on Terra were strata of silicified wood.
From Ullr Uprising by Piper, H. Beam
Every geologist is aware how often silicified trees occur in volcanic tuffs, the perfect preservation of their internal structure showing that they have not decayed before the petrifying material was supplied.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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