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to mineralize

to mineralize

7.4
To become hard as minerals collect inside things like bones
  • verb
  • /ˈmɪnərəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mineralizar
  • The process of mineralizing bones helps to preserve them for study by researchers.
  • mineralized bone

Now you've re mineralized clean water and, of course, get a good container, a glass bottle.

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Examples

  • However, the data reflect the drinking behavior at the time that the animal was mineralizing its teeth (before they erupt).

    Academic text (2001)
  • So Baraja made these more highly mineralized scaffolds, and these are just some SEM images of those.

  • Or you can then pull up the plants, you can re mineralize it with more compost and just let it sit all season.

  • Now you've re mineralized clean water and, of course, get a good container, a glass bottle.

  • Some specimens of Ambulocetus show marine values, demonstrating that these individuals did not ingest fresh water at the time their teeth mineralized.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Mallory just takes this distilled or or filtered water and puts a a few drops of electrolytes in it so that we re mineralize the water.

  • COF can manifest in a radiolucent, radiopaque, or mixed form depending on the amount of mineralized tissue that is present.

    Academic text (2006)
  • They are made up of fibroblast and collagen fibers that contain varying amounts of mineralized material rather than a normal bone structure.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Psammomatoid ossifying fibromas are notable for the presence of bony spicules and mineralized/calcified psammomatoid material.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The provisional callus (Schoen, 2000) eventually becomes more solid as fibrocartilage becomes mineralized by the deposition of hydroxyapatite.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

to fossilize
vsto mineralize
  • Specialized
9 6.0

Change into a fossil over a long time

turns material by mineral infiltration rather than preserving remains as hardened traces
to petrify
vsto mineralize
  • Specialized
1 7.4

To change something into stone over a long time

converts material by minerals seeping in not by full stone replacement
to lithify
vsto mineralize
  • Specialized
9.8

To turn into solid rock over time

acts on sediments to form rock rather than converting material by mineral seepage

How Mineralized

to mineralize
  • Specialized
7.4
unmineralized
  • Specialized
7.5

Surface Forms

mineralize infinitive
mineralized past participle
mineralizing present participle
mineralizes third person singular

Morphology

mineralize = mineral (transparent) = mineral + ize

Formed by the productive suffix '-ize' attached to 'mineral', meaning 'to make or become mineral', which is directly deducible.

Etymology

Mineralize comes from the common word mineral plus the ending -ize, which means 'to make' or 'to become'. Think of soft bone or dead plants slowly filling with hard mineral bits until they 'become mineral' and turn hard, so the word means to change into a mineral substance.