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UK
/səlˌɪdɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
he tested the set of the glue
the hardening of concrete
How To Use solidification In A Sentence
- Rich feasts contain a lot of protein, fat and energy, which speed the solidification of the fat in blood.
- The university must not be a locus of solidification of rigid paradigms, of canons of knowledge, but of plastic modelling, of the risk of thought, of skepsis and polemos, and at the same time of the respect of the common rhythm of thinking. Eurozine articles
- Despite the steel strike, the rest of the decade was marked by the solidification of a relatively peaceful collective bargaining system between well-entrenched unions and large industrial corporations.
- On the other hand, Louisa also stands in as representation of what is lost through the solidification of American identity emblematized in the marriage between Bess and Oliver. Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper
- Solidification begins when the temperature drops below the liquidus; it is completed when the temperature reaches the solidus.
- It's more than a miracle; it's the solidification of the Jewish people. Orrin Hatch does Hanukkah
- Rather than advance Palestinian independence, this vitriol contributes to the solidification of the Israeli occupation in the name of security. Alon Ben-Meir: Palestinian Incitement Against Israel
- The results indicate that the casting defects are mainly shrinkage porosity and cracks caused by solidification shrink, which mainly presents in the hot spot between the spoke and the rim.
- This primary ore, or protore, was clearly formed after the solidification of the igneous rocks, though soon after, by solutions from igneous sources which followed fractured and shattered zones. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- It's likely that he was descended from a small population of sundadonts (sundadonty being the dentition pattern that was an evolutionary precursor to sinodonty, which developed and still exists in South Asia, aka the Indian Subcontinent), whose ancestors may have migrated into the Americas before the solidification of the traits that comprise sinodonty, and subsequently competed, lived alongside, and were eventually genetically enveloped by the later waves of migration. What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant