cementationn.
/siːmənˈteɪʃən/ 1. The action or process of cementing or producing cohesion; the state of cohesion thus produced. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > close, intimate, or permanent joining > cohesion
coagmentation1578
coherency1603
coherence1604
conglutination1607
agglutination1614
cementation1660
cohesion1678
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > close, intimate, or permanent joining
spousal1340
weddingc1380
solding1398
marriagec1400
espousal?c1450
soldering?1550
marryinga1566
twist1580
suture1600
welding1603
ferrumination1606
cementation1836
cementing1868
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 69 Strengthen those that are weak with a stick tyed above and below the grafted place..till the cementation be made and confirmed.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 109 Earthy substances acquire a stony hardness..from..concretion, cementation.
1818 Scoresby in Ann. Reg., Chron. 543 The cementation..of the pieces of a closely aggregated pack [of ice].
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xi. 219 To this inequality..society owes its firmest cementation.
2.
a. ‘The process by which one solid is made to penetrate and combine with another at a high temperature so as to change the properties of one of them, without liquefaction taking place’ (Watts Dict. Chem.).
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > cementation
cementingc1386
cementation1592
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > miscellaneous other processes
redintegrationa1550
decoction1555
fixion1555
cementation1592
fumigation1617
spiritualization1651
retortion1657
rocking1673
phosphorizationa1687
concentration1689
humectation1706
animalization1733
hyperoxygenation1793
bituminization1804
assimilation1830
metamorphosis1843
transformation1857
retorting1858
tincturation1860
regeneration1869
nitrification1880
diagenesis1886
aluminothermy1900
aluminothermics1902
photoprocess1910
olation1931
mass transfer1937
reconcentration1956
tritiation1961
borohydride reduction1965
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea ii. iii. sig. C3 Enter the Alcumists boy Peter... It is a very secrete Science, for none almost can vnderstand the language of it..Circination, Sementation, [etc.].
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 86 Cementations, Blaunchers, and Citrinations.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 61 Their colours may be taken away by cementation and reuerberation.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §101. 165 Make a good fire of Charcole about it, which is called a Wheel-fire of cementation.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Cementation, in Chymistry it is used for the purifying of Gold, by laying plates of Gold in the midst of Pouders made of Brick and Vitriol, enclos'd in a close stop'd Vessel, and set in a Fire of Reverberation.
1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 593 Gold..could not be separated from the Platina..either by Cementation, or by the more ordinary Operations with Lead and Antimony.
1818 M. Faraday Exper. Res. (1820) xvi. 65 An attempt..to procure the alloy of steel with silver by cementation: a small piece of steel wrapped in silver leaf..was put into a crucible.
b. spec. ‘The conversion of iron into steel by absorption of carbon…from a mass of ground charcoal in which it lies embedded while exposed to strong ignition’ (Watts Dict. Chem.).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > conversion of metals > of iron into steel > methods or processes
cementation1780
Bessemer process1864
Siemens process1866
spray steelmaking1965
spray refining1967
1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain i. xiii. 134 Steel may be made by fusion or cementation.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 4 If the cementation be continued too long, the steel becomes porous..and incapable of being welded.
1862 Timbs Year-bk. of Facts 189 The theory of Cementation, or conversion of iron into steel, has undergone a thorough investigation.
c. attributive.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to industrial processes
cementation1884
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xviii. 406 The Cementation process for the conversion of bar-iron into cementation or blister steel... The process is conducted in a converting or cementation furnace.
1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing xvii. 79 In the cementation process, bars of wrought iron are imbedded in powdered charcoal in a fireclay trough.
1889 Q. Rev. July 137 This is known as the ‘converting’ or ‘cementation’ process, and the charcoal employed as the recarbonizing agent is termed ‘cement’.
1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ix. 7 Cementation process, a method of sealing off water-bearing strata by the injection of cement grout through boreholes.
3. The process of encasing or lining with cement.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > other means of disposal > [noun] > encasing in cement
cementation1886
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 3/2 Cementation as a substitute for cremation..Encase the body in cement..and you remove sanitary objections, and observe the formalities of the ritual.
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