English Dictionary

mineralize

verb

To convert to a mineral; to petrify. / To impregnate with minerals. / To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.

The volcanic activity mineralizes the surrounding rocks.

意味（1）

To convert to a mineral; to petrify.

in all these cases , the bones found in caverns are never mineralised, but simply in the state of grave bones more or less decayed or incrusted by stalagmite ; and have no farther connexion with the rocks themselves

意味（2）

To impregnate with minerals.

mineralized water

意味（3）

To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.

He was a senior when he asked Barnes if he ever went mineralizing, referred admiringly to Bowdoin's Professor Cleaveland, and expressed a wish to give a good knock about the rocks in Maine.