Crossword-Solution: MINERALISATION
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with MINERALISATION (5)
Mineralisation of Organic Remains.—The changes which fossil organic bodies have undergone since they were first imbedded in rocks, throw much light on the consolidation of strata.
The loss of mercury usually occurring in amalgamation work is principally caused by its mineralisation, and sodium has such an intense affinity for oxygen and sulphur, that it reduces the mercury to its metallic form again, and prevents its being carried off in light mineralised flakes and powder.
The inferior beds are _drier_ and more compact than the upper ones; or less bituminous, because their mineralisation has been completed under the influence of a higher temperature, and at the same time under a greater pressure.
The terms mineralisation, disintegration, oxidation, hydrolysis, bacteriolysis, nitrification, decomposition, eremacausis, putrefaction, fermentation, etc., have by many been used somewhat promiscuously, and this has led to a good deal of confusion, bewilderment and misconception.
Aerobic bacteria, too, such as the nitre and sulphur bacteria, bring about this mineralisation of organic nitrogen.