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Mineralize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.

v. To transform a metal into a mineral by oxidation.

v. To impregnate with minerals.

verb-intransitive. To develop or hasten mineral formation.

verb-intransitive. To collect or study minerals.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To convert to a mineral; to petrify

v. To impregnate with minerals

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To transform into a mineral.

v. To impregnate with a mineral.

v. To charge or impregnate with ore.

verb-intransitive. To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. transform (a metal) into an ore

v. convert into a mineral substance

Word Usage

"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."

Antonym

demineralize

Verb Form

mineralized mineralizes mineralizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

convert

Cross Reference

mineralizing agent

Form

mineralized mineralizing mineralizable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

mineralogize