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Definition of mineralize
mineralized
;mineralizing
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That’s because the soft tissues of the undercarriage are usually long gone by the time the harder exoskeletons mineralize into the distinctive alien-looking fossils.
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The gas mineralized into calcium carbonate, the main component of limestone.
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At the Hellisheidi geothermal plant near Reykjavik, researchers dissolve carbon dioxide in water and inject it into basalt rock, which chemically reacts with the gas, mineralizing it.
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