petrifaction in the PONS Dictionary

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This dynamic process allows for the ability to translate the original text, thus giving that text a flexibility which refuses its petrifaction.
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The artist has layered 40 metre long walls of ashes behind glass, as archives of petrifaction.
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Evidence for rapid petrifaction of wood speaks against the need for long periods of time and is consistent with an age of thousands of years.
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This is also called petrifaction, as in petrified wood.
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As a result, calcium carbonate from the surrounding soil had replaced the flesh leading to petrifaction.
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The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen which inhibits aerobic decomposition.
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There might the recluse have lived till his bones fell among the petrifaction, but he was at length expelled from its gloomy precincts on account of his contraband iniquities.
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