mineralize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To convert to a mineral

   To convert to a mineral; to petrify.

   • in all these cases , the bones found in caverns are never mineralised, but simply in the state of grave bones more or less decayed or incrusted by stalagmite ; and have no farther connexion with the rocks themselves
2. 2

   To impregnate with minerals.

   • mineralized water
3. 3

   To mineralogize

   To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.

   • He was a senior when he asked Barnes if he ever went "mineralizing," referred admiringly to Bowdoin's Professor Cleaveland, and expressed a wish to "give a good knock about the rocks in Maine."

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• antonymdemineralize