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Mineralized   Listen
adjective
mineralized  adj.  
1.
Containing or impregnated with minerals; as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.
2.
Converted into a mineral.
Synonyms: petrified.





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"Mineralized" Quotes from Famous Books



... anthracite—through semibituminous coal, bituminous or soft coal, lignite (an imperfect coal in which sometimes woody fibers may be seen little changed)—with peat and decaying vegetable tissues. Coal is compressed and mineralized vegetal matter. Its varieties depend on the perfection to which the peculiar change called bituminization has been carried, and also, as shown in the table below, on the degree to which the volatile substances and water have escaped, and on the ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton
... useful, but in some cases it is necessary to go a step further and to ascertain the mechanical conditions of their origin in order to interpret them clearly. If, for illustration, there are successive groups of mineralized veins in a mining camp, the later ones cutting the earlier ones, these might be treated as separate structural units. But if it can be shown that the several sets of veins have formed from a single movement, that ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith


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