Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Cementation

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Cementation


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(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.