Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act, process, or result of volcanizing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The the process of undergoing
volcanic heat and being affected by it.
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Examples
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Without this ancient process of volcanization plate tectonics would not have developed.
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I could discover no sign of volcanization; but I observed, first, im - mense masses of testaceous and other animals petrified, the species of which were per - fectly distinguishable.
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