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  • verb Present participle of mineralize.

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Examples

  • I had the plain green earthenware one very much along the lines of a Brown Betty, which held about ten cups of tea and saw me through two apartments and part of my stay in Las Vegas, before I realized that it was mineralizing around the cracks and I should probably throw it away before the day when I filled it with ten cups of boiling water and it exploded.

    one bedroom one bath a/c worked fine 'till yesterday ladegard 2008

  • The timing of quartz veining and the gold-mineralizing event is unclear, at least in the sense that the many mining companies that looked for gold there (in the 1970's to 1980's in particular) all seemed to use different deposit models, from Carlin-type to exhalite-type to some variation of Mesquite-type, and even, possibly, to some variation of Mother-Lode-type (mesothermal veins).

    Hmmm... Silver Fox 2008

  • 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

    The Gold-Bug 2006

  • Organic preservation of non-mineralizing organisms and the taphonomy of the Burgess Shale.

    Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • It then hardens the new cuticle by cross-linking and mineralizing it, and gradually replaces its body water with muscle and other tissues.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • It then hardens the new cuticle by cross-linking and mineralizing it, and gradually replaces its body water with muscle and other tissues.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Low-melting slags, fluoride and calcium sulphate are a few of the numerous substances that render a mineralizing effect on clinker formation.

    2. Energy efficiency in the production of high-energy content building materials 1995

  • 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.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • 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.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • 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.

    Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

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