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Life's way of turning soft tissue into rock before you even die.
means The process by which minerals replace or impregnate organic material or accumulate in rock and soil, hardening it into a more durable, stone-like form.
from Built from 'mineral,' which traces back through French to Latin 'minera' meaning 'mine' or 'ore' — the stuff dug out of the earth. The '-ize' turns it into an action, '-ation' into the process itself: literally, 'the act of turning into ore-stuff.' The word entered scientific use as geology and chemistry matured enough to describe how organic remains — bone, wood, shell — slowly trade their original material for minerals, atom by atom, until soft becomes stone.
- teeth vs bone
- enamel is 96% mineral, the hardest thing your body makes
- the trade-off
- strong bones are basically slow-motion fossilization you're still using
- gone wrong
- arteries mineralizing is just bones forming where you really don't want them
- fossil link
- same process turns buried bone into stone over millions of years