mineralize
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The leftover carbon dioxide will be stored deep beneath the North Sea in sedimentary bedrock and will gradually mineralize over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
It takes recycled CO2, supplied by contractors who capture it from factory exhaust, and injects the gas into a mix so that it can infiltrate and mineralize in the concrete.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2021
“We have the sea, the mountains, the rainforest, the lagoons, in close distances on lands that are mineralized by the volcanoes. These create ingredients that are unique to the state.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Today, nearly all sponges have mineralized spicules, which might suggest that skeletons played a key role in their early success.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
And the company says there is potentially more: The current resource spans three kilometers of an estimated eight-kilometer mineralized gold belt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Five vertebrae have been recovered, each partly mineralized, which helped preserve them.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
The limestone that elsewhere gives Iowa its hard mineralized water was obliterated and replaced by the shocked basement rocks that so puzzled the water driller in 1912.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
And mineralizing a trillion metric tons of CO2 would consume only about 0.03 percent of that oxygen.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2021
During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the bichloride of mercury.
From Short-Stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
There being no reason to suppose deposition from solution, are we not under the necessity of inferring, that the mineralizing process depends on a small motion and separation of the particles of the original compound?
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood, which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the bi-chloride of mercury.
From International Short Stories American by Various
The first was through the mineralizing action of heated and ore depositing waters, coming up out of the depths, and impregnating and permeating the hanging and foot walls of the contact.
