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Mineralization   Listen
noun
Mineralization  n.  
1.
The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
2.
The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
3.
(Bot.) The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.





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"Mineralization" Quotes from Famous Books



... things, must remain unknown. No mine is laid bare to study and resolve in advance. We have to deal with conditions buried in the earth. Especially in metal mines we cannot know, when our works are initiated, what the size, mineralization, or surroundings of the ore-bodies will be. We must plunge into them and learn,—and repent. Not only is the useful life of our mining works indeterminate, but the very character of them is uncertain in ...
— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover
... interest to ascertain whether the carbonized portion had preserved a structure that was still recognizable, and, in such an event, to compare this structure with that of the portion of the specimen that was preserved in all its details by mineralization. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various


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