cementation

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"We're most interested to find clues as to the aqueous geochemistry which resulted in cementation of the sedimentary rocks," he told the BBC this week.

From BBC

In the cementation process, bars of wrought iron are imbedded in powdered charcoal in a fireclay trough, and kept at a high temperature in a furnace for several days.

From Project Gutenberg

Their hardness and the degree of cementation may be tested by means of a file.

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While nitric acid will only part gold and silver when the latter is in great excess, yet when applied as fumes under cementation conditions it appears to react upon a minor ratio of silver.

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The conversion of the silver into the chloride may be effected by means of salt—the “cementation” process—or other chlorides, or by free chlorine—Miller’s process.

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