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Silicify
Silicify Si*lic"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silicified; p. pr. & vb. n. Silicifying.] [L. silex, silicis, a flint + -fy: cf. F. silicifier.] (Chem.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon. The specimens found . . . are completely silicified. --Say. Note: The silica may take the form of agate, chalcedony, flint, hornstone, or crystalline quartz.
Silicify
Silicify Si*lic"i*fy, v. i. To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

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- Retrieved Feb 15, 2012. Sigleo, Anne (1978). "Organic geochemistry of silicified wood, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona". Geochimica et Cosmochimica...
- for silicification. Some examples are silicified limestones of Miocene Astoria Formation in Washington, silicified ignimbrite in El Tatio Geyser Field in...
- S****n stones are silicified sandstone blocks found in quantity in Southern England on Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire; in Kent;...
- Silicified (replaced with silica) fossils from the Road Canyon Formation (Middle Permian of Texas)...
- and Equisetum laterale from the Early to Middle Jur****ic of Australia. Silicified remains of Equisetum thermale from the Late Jur****ic of Argentina exhibit...
- such as holes bored by crustaceans or molluscs and that this becomes silicified. This hypothesis would certainly explain the complex shapes of flint nodules...
- official state rock is bituminous coal, and the official state gemstone is silicified Mississippian fossil Lithostrotionella coral. The limestone also produced...
- lacustrine deposits, interbedded in the basalt formations, contain a range of silicified mollusc fossils. In the Antalo Limestone: large Paracenoceratidae cephalopods...
- to the fresh lime plaster using a fresco technique, whereby the colours silicify with the plaster in a chemical reaction and the paintings are thus able...
- April 2023. Liljedahl, Louis (January 1985). "Ecological aspects of a silicified bivalve fauna from the Silurian of Gotland". Lethaia. 18 (1): 53–66. doi:10...