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Calcification

noun
1.
A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts).
2.
Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts.
3.
An inflexible and unchanging state.





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"Calcification" Quotes from Famous Books



... is added to the human flesh to make it Mekstrom's Flesh, you are wrong. Standard analysis shows that the flesh is composed of exactly the same chemicals that normal flesh contains, in the same proportion. Nothing is added, as, for instance, in the case of calcification." ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith


Words linked to "Calcification" :   hardening, inactiveness, calcify, inaction, chemical action, ossification, chemical change, chemical process, inactivity


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