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Noun petrification has 1 sense

• petrification(n = noun.process) petrifaction - the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape; Array
is a kind of fossilisation, fossilization
Derived form verb petrify₂

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petrification

ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, arteriosclerosis, artifact, atherosclerosis, calcification, callusing, case hardening, cave painting, concretion, cornification, crystallization, eolith, firming, fossil, fossilization, granulation, hardening, hornification, induration, lapidification, lithification, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, ossification, paleolith, petrifaction, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, relic, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins, sclerosis, setting, solidification, steeling, stiffening, survival, tempering, toughening, vestige, vitrifaction, vitrification

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petrification

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

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