Mineralize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Mineralize is a verb meaning (transitive) To convert to a mineral; to petrify.
Meaning
(transitive) To convert to a mineral; to petrify.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To impregnate with minerals.
- (intransitive) To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.
Example Sentences
mineralized water
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."
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
Word Forms
- mineralizes
- mineralizing
- mineralized
Antonyms for mineralize
Common opposites include demineralize.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mineralise, stonify, permineralize, pegmatize, biomineralize, metamictize.
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