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What does fossilization mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  2. (figuratively) The process of becoming fixed, unchanging, and out of date.
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The party Polaroid is not so much an evocation of a past event as it is an instant fossilization of the present.
Only the final peristomeal differentiations, with fragile lappets, may disappear during fossilization.
Oil, natural gas, coal and other energy sources created in the Earth's crust through the fossilization of living matter.
The probability of fossilization is investigated by taphonomists and geologists, who have concluded that it usually is very low.
This may not be fossilization as we know it, of large macrostructures, but fossilization at a molecular level.
The fossilization process known as petrifaction usually begins when a tree or log is buried in silica-rich, alkaline volcanic ash or mud.

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