पेट्रीफिकेशन,

petrification's Usage Examples:

1737 at the University of Verona asserted that fossils, then known as petrifications, of recognizably marine species, to be found in the mountains near Verona.

(Chinese: 石化; pinyin: Shíhuà; Shanghainese: zah4ho3 ka1dau2; literally "petrification") is a subdistrict and the seat of Jinshan District, in the southern.

assembled an extensive natural history collection that included seashells, petrifications, and insects of all orders.

In the grammar of architecture, the word petrification is often used when discussing the development of sacred structures such.

"Kurra-kurran, the name of a place in which there is almost a forest of petrifications of wood, of various sizes, extremely well defined.

Segato"s method consisted of what appears to be mineralization or "petrification".

Medusa complex is a psychological complex revolving around the petrification or freezing of human emotion, and drawing on the classical myth of the Medusa.

revealed that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, which led to the petrifications of two of her students in her house, Hermione Granger and Colin Creevey.

Petrified wood: Permineralization is the first step in petrification.

In petrification, the cellulose cell walls are completely replaced by minerals.

floating islands, which, as in other cases, were formed from the partial petrification of plants by the mineral substances contained in the water.

begins by criticising the then movement"s "artistic deviation" and "the petrification of its revolutionary effort".

Petrifaction, or petrification, defined as turning people to stone, is a common theme in folklore and mythology, as well as in some works of modern literature.

Synonyms:

petrifaction, fossilization, fossilisation,