mineralize

Example Sentences

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Five vertebrae have been recovered, each partly mineralized, which helped preserve them.

From Science Daily

The fossilized chambers of a phragmocone are divided by mineralized sheets, which are very distinctive and generally well-preserved, Whalen said.

From Seattle Times

Writing in the journal Nature, Turner leaned on those recent discoveries to describe how the fossils may have formed when sponges, measuring a few millimeters to a centimeter across, became mineralized.

From Washington Post

All pregnant animals that give birth to live young have one; the oldest known example is a 380 million-year-old primitive fish fossil with a mineralized umbilical cord discovered by Australian researchers in 2008.

From Salon

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