petrification
Noun
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Noun
petrification
- the process of replacing the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, the original shape and topography being retained
- (figurative) obduracy; callousness
- petrified forest
- petrified wood
- German: Versteinerung, Petrifikation
- Spanish: petrificación, silicatización
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