fossil oil

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This acid decays the tooth, but also destroys DNA and stops plaque from fossilising.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

This means that, on the one hand, the language of the King James Bible was already somewhat archaic in 1611, so the translators are perhaps not entirely without blame for its fossilising effect on language.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2011

Poets in dead and foreign languages were a form of fossils, and English poets--with that divine bloom upon them!--they had a way of fossilising by spectacles, so that they never read them alive.

From The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] by Le Gallienne, Richard

Solitary possessor of wealth, autocrat over a little world of her own, instead of fossilising in dull dignity, she proved herself receptive of many influences with which the time was fraught.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George