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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...
- Stonehenge megaliths include smaller bluestones and larger s****ns (a term for silicified sandstone boulders found in the chalk downs of southern England). The...
- 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...
- 065.0101. Schwarzhans, Werner W.; Jagt, John W. M. (1 November 2021). "Silicified otoliths from the Maastrichtian type area (Netherlands, Belgium) do****ent...
- S****n stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire;...
- 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...
- diagenetic cherty nodules, and stromatolitic limestone and is intensively silicified. The hydrothermal alteration, which created this breccia, has been dated...
- Silica pseudomorph after gypsum crystals and silicified serpulid polychaete tubes...
- lacustrine deposits, interbedded in the basalt formations, contain a range of silicified mollusc fossils. In the Antalo Limestone: large Paracenoceratidae cephalopods...