petrifaction
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For another video, Weitz dipped her own hand in porcelain slip and let it dry, creating a crackling petrifaction effect on her skin; her dusty, chalky-looking body then appeared a decaying sculpture itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2016
The petrifaction of religious language has happened over and over – Catholic Latin, Orthodox Slavonic.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2011
Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Besides complete mineralization, or petrifaction, there are numerous cases of incomplete or semi-fossilization, where modern objects, still retaining their phosphate of lime and some animal matter even, are found buried in rock.
From Animals of the Past by Frederic A. Lucas
Where forms, such as the Demon-World adores, Laborious water carves; whence echo slips Wild-tongued o'er pools where petrifaction strips Her breasts of crystal from which crystal pours.—
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
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Earth Science - Middle School
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