mineralisation
Noun
Meaning
mineralisation (countable and uncountable, plural mineralisations)
Alternative spelling of mineralization
Synonyms
Examples
At a later time when those bacteria die, their nitrogen may be released as ammonium by the processes of mineralisation.
Definition of the wireframes is based on identified gold mineralisation in drill core nominally at a 0.2g/t Au cut off in conjunction with geological control/sense and current mining widths.
The Company has undertaken a drilling programme targeting sets of polymetallic veins together with areas of disseminated sulphide mineralisation.
Osteoblasts are involved in the creation and mineralisation of bone; osteocytes and osteoclasts are involved in the reabsorption of bone tissue.
He said that soil mineralisation – where soil organic matter is converted by microbes into forms of nitrogen that are available to plants – was often unaccounted for as a source of nitrogen in fruit tree orchards.
Some micro-organisms are able to metabolise organic matter and release ammonium in a process called mineralisation.