Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.
- intransitive verb To transform a metal into a mineral by oxidation.
- intransitive verb To impregnate with minerals.
- intransitive verb To develop or hasten mineral formation.
- intransitive verb To collect or study minerals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change from the metallic character to that of an ore.
- To go on a minoralogical excursion; make an excursion with the view of collecting minerals. Also spelled
mineralise . - To impregnate with mineral substances, as metallic salts: thus, the water of a particular spring may be spoken of as more or less strongly mineralized.
- In mining, to introduce, in solution or otherwise, a new mineral or ore into (surroundings where it did not previously exist, as, for example, into a fissure or into shattered or porous rock). The rock is then said to be mineralized.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To transform into a mineral.
- transitive verb To impregnate with a mineral.
- transitive verb To charge or impregnate with ore.
- intransitive verb To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To convert to a
mineral ; topetrify - verb To impregnate with minerals
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb transform (a metal) into an ore
- verb convert into a mineral substance
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Examples
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The company says it will "mineralize" the carbon dioxide as baking soda, offsetting an additional 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in the manufacture of benign chemical byproducts.
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Xylitol is a natural sweetener that is considered "tooth friendly" by dental professionals, as it can actually "starve" the negative micro-organisms that damage teeth, allowing the teeth to re-mineralize faster.
Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Mouth Health: Is Chewing Gum, Good Or Bad ? 2010
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RICKETS In infants and children, severe vitamin D deficiency results in the failure of the bone to mineralize.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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You know that you need calcium to mineralize provide more rigid structure to the collagen proteins that help build your bone.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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You know that you need calcium to mineralize provide more rigid structure to the collagen proteins that help build your bone.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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You know that you need calcium to mineralize provide more rigid structure to the collagen proteins that help build your bone.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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With time, the plaque can mineralize into tartar, which becomes a hard crust that causes further irritation.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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· Making it impossible for the medium matter (formed as a result of incomplete dissolution) to mineralize rapidly, to continuously release energy and produce various NH4+ and PHO4 - ions, and to renew the humus in the soil.
Chapter 6 1995
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The main purpose of wastewater treatment is to remove or mineralize the organic substances, i.e. to prepare them for release into a receiving body of water or the agricultural environment.
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These microbes, like many others, continuously mineralize organic substances, and thus exhibit themselves as the indispensable agents of the movement of the matter that incessantly circulates from the mineral to the organic world, and _vice versa_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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