Cementation Definition

sēmĕn-tāshən
noun
A cementing or being cemented.
Webster's New World
The act, process, or result of cementing.
American Heritage
The process by which a solid surrounded by a metallurgical cement is heated intensely and made to combine chemically with the cement to produce a new product.
Webster's New World

(geology) The precipitation of mineral matter in the pores of a sediment.

Wiktionary

(medicine) The use of a cement join the parts of a broken bone to aid in the healing process.

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Cementation Sentence Examples

  • Oil filled the crest of the reservoir first and prevented extensive quartz cementation.

  • This method results in a smoother coated surface than that obtained for pack cementation.

  • The conversion of the silver into the chloride may be effected by means of salt - the " cementation " process - or other chlorides, or by free chlorine - Miller's process.

  • The methods of manufacture of steel by cementation, case-hardening and the Harvey process are important operations which appear to depend on the diffusion of the carburetting material into the solid metal.

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Words Starting With

CCECEM

Words Ending With

NONION

Unscrambles

cementation

Words Starting With C and Ending With N

Starts With C & Ends With NStarts With CE & Ends With NStarts With C & Ends With ON

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With C11 Letter Words Ending With N