CEMENTATION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act or process of cementing.

2.
n.

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.


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