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Definition of Silicify

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.

Meaning of Silicify from wikipedia

- 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 extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire;...
- 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...
- official state rock is bituminous coal, and the official state gemstone is silicified Mississippian fossil Lithostrotionella coral. The limestone also produced...
- Stonehenge megaliths include smaller bluestones and larger s****ns (a term for silicified sandstone boulders found in the chalk downs of southern England). The...
- such as holes bored by crustaceans or molluscs and that this becomes silicified. This hypothesis would certainly explain the complex shapes of flint nodules...
- Silica pseudomorph after gypsum crystals and silicified serpulid polychaete tubes...
- California Orbicular "ocean jasper" (not, strictly, a jasper, but a highly silicified rhyolite or tuff) Analalava District Madagascar, polished slab Orbicular...
- mineralised with calcium phosphate rather than calcium carbonate, although silicified examples hint that some species bore carbonate or carbonaceous sclerites...
- in Devon, and R. Etheridge in Australia. A study of the taphonomy of silicified fossils (especially brachiopods) in Devon concluded b****ite resulted from...