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mineralize

[min-er-uh-lahyz, min-ruh-] / ˈmɪn ər əˌlaɪz, ˈmɪn rə- /


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The leftover carbon dioxide will be stored deep beneath the North Sea in sedimentary bedrock and will gradually mineralize over time.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

It takes recycled CO2, supplied by contractors who capture it from factory exhaust, and injects the gas into a mix so that it can infiltrate and mineralize in the concrete.

From New York Times Jun. 23, 2021

“We have the sea, the mountains, the rainforest, the lagoons, in close distances on lands that are mineralized by the volcanoes. These create ingredients that are unique to the state.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

By examining the fossil record, the researchers found that sponge spicules become more mineralized over time.

From Science Daily Apr. 15, 2026

Today, nearly all sponges have mineralized spicules, which might suggest that skeletons played a key role in their early success.

From Science Daily Feb. 28, 2026

And the company says there is potentially more: The current resource spans three kilometers of an estimated eight-kilometer mineralized gold belt.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

The limestone that elsewhere gives Iowa its hard mineralized water was obliterated and replaced by the shocked basement rocks that so puzzled the water driller in 1912.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

And mineralizing a trillion metric tons of CO2 would consume only about 0.03 percent of that oxygen.

From Scientific American Nov. 14, 2021

During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood, which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the Bi-chloride of Mercury.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the bichloride of mercury.

From Short-Stories by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood, which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the bi-chloride of mercury.

From International Short Stories American by Various

In some instances, alumina, which is likewise deposited from the hot waters, is the mineralizing material.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir




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