verb
- to convert into or replace with agate through a fossilization process
Usage: geological
Examples
- Over millions of years, minerals can agatize organic material like wood.
- The ancient tree trunk had been completely agatized by silica deposits.
- Scientists studied how certain conditions cause materials to agatize.
- The fossilized wood showed clear signs that it had begun to agatize.
- Groundwater rich in silica helped agatize the buried logs.