mineralize
Example Sentences
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Five vertebrae have been recovered, each partly mineralized, which helped preserve them.
From Science Daily
Hard, protective body scales, made of mineralized tissue such as dentine or enamel, could have migrated into the mouth—a hypothesis known as outside-in.
From Scientific American
Trinajstic and her team had previously discovered mineralized muscle tissue in these same placoderm fossils.
From Scientific American
Scientists cannot look for mammary glands in fossils, since soft tissue is rarely preserved, leaving them to examine mineralized teeth instead.
From Washington Times
Another way to estimate age is to use a microscope to count the yearly additions of a mineralized tissue called cementum on teeth.
From Salon
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