Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.
- v. To transform a metal into a mineral by oxidation.
- v. To impregnate with minerals.
- v. To develop or hasten mineral formation.
- v. To collect or study minerals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To change from the metallic character to that of an ore. Thus tin, a white metal, becomes very dark-colored and unmetallic in appearance when mineralized by oxygen, as it is in the common ore of that metal.
- 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To transform into a mineral.
- v. To impregnate with a mineral.
- v. To charge or impregnate with ore.
- v. To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
WordNet 3.0
- v. transform (a metal) into an ore
- v. convert into a mineral substance
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
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“RICKETS In infants and children, severe vitamin D deficiency results in the failure of the bone to mineralize.”
“You know that you need calcium to mineralize provide more rigid structure to the collagen proteins that help build your bone.”
“With time, the plaque can mineralize into tartar, which becomes a hard crust that causes further irritation.”
“· 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.”
“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.”
“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_.”
“Their ability to take uranium out of a solution and mineralize it has proven invaluable at abandoned uranium mines.”
“What about "sodium calcium phosphosilicate" which can re-mineralize teeth - even "heal" small cavities?”
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