concretion

Example Sentences

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Calcite forms impenetrable crystals in cracks and holes, reproducing the concretion formation process seen in nature, only much faster.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

What they wanted was the practical experience of disassembling and treating each pump's roughly 120 parts after removing 140 years of marine concretion and corrosion.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2016

Instead, by stirring them into its concretion of the oral and the written, the poetic and the prosaic, the local and the global, Texaco made everything I’d ever loved about reading feel new.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2015

There’s no finer tool for the task of shoveling snow—especially when that “snow” is in fact that unique urban concretion of ice, sand, and salt.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2014

The relentless cleaning of the vessel uncovered, hidden beneath the layers of concretion, a water tube that ran the length of the forty-foot sub.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler