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convert into lime
the salts calcified the rock -
turn into lime; become calcified
The rock calcified over the centuries -
become inflexible and unchanging
Old folks can calcify - become impregnated with calcium salts
How To Use calcify In A Sentence
- Old folks can calcify
- The posterior aspect of the lateral pterygoid plate may be joined to the angular spine of the greater wing by a pterygopetrosal ligament that may calcify.
- Extended periods in low or zero gravity take their toll on the human body: bones begin to decalcify as they experience less stress, and muscles atrophy, also as a result of disuse.
- Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms. Ocean acidification
- A special organic additive removes almost all carbon and eliminates decalcifying altogether. Woot! - One Day, One Deal
- And the memories, of course, to keep you company, of the child or spouse, not even memory anymore, just a stone in the gut like a calcifying pearl. Kook
- For Reynolds, the past is calcifying contemporary music. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review
- As the osteogenetic fibers grow out to the periphery they continue to calcify, and give rise to fresh bone spicules. II. Osteology. 2. Bone
- Jazz composer and visionary Sun Ra: is the past 'calcifying contemporary music'? Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review
- Today a friend and garden coach is coming over to walk around with me and help my musings have form and cohesion…I am going to concentrate on the front gardens they are in need of decalcifying! Musings « Fairegarden