petrification

The play is dominated by images of stone and petrification.

There is a poorly known type of petrification that can happen very fast, within a few days.

One way for fossils to form is by petrification.

Whatever her snakes touch, the object begins a petrification process.

Once that process of petrification is complete, little new pedagogical blood can be squeezed from it.

India's caste system is often cited as an example of cultural petrification.

It was, after all, a certain scent that by its very existence smacked of petrification.

He manages to break her wand in half, making it useless as means of petrification.

They are immune to electricity energy and petrification effects.

Furthermore, it is a civilization that has had time enough to become set in its structures; a kind of cultural petrification, if you will.

This one had pearly spires, but no torture areas for petrification.

Like the turnover of cells in a human's body, or the petrification of a tree.

This was a real human body, intentionally injected with chemicals for preservation and petrification.

Such an attitude exposes us to mockery or, worse, slow petrification.

On some of those endless days, a creeping feeling of petrification sets in.

This is a startling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrification.

In petrification, the cellulose cell walls are completely replaced by minerals.

From its eyes, it is capable of firing four different eye weapons; fire, frost, electricity and petrification.

Rockefeller Center, he argues, has suffered from creeping petrification.

The petrification victims are also restored after this.

Over their limbs crept a curious rigidity, an unnatural petrification.

One of the processes involved in petrification is permineralization.

Perhaps, to cause the mythic petrification, it was necessary to sustain the regard of both the Gorgon's eyes.

Alas, he waited too long, overshot the mark, and heard his voice go well beyond evenness into petrification.

Dylan settled back into his reverie of petrification.