cementation

1. The act, process, or result of cementing.
2. A metallurgical coating process in which iron or steel is immersed in a powder of another metal, such as zinc, chromium, or aluminum, and heated to a temperature below the melting point of either.

Any metallurgical process in which the surface of a metal is impregnated by some other substance, especially an obsolete process for making steel by heating bars of wrought iron to red heat for several days in a bed of charcoal. See also case hardening.

Attachment of an appliance or a restoration to natural teeth or attachment of parts by means of a cement.

The binding together of particles by adhesive materials. Sedimentary rocks are often bound together and hardened by cementation.

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The setting of a cement.

Cementation may refer to:

• Cementation (geology), the process of deposition of dissolved mineral components in the interstices of sediments
• Cementation (medical), a small deposit of calcium, similar to a cyst
• Cementation (metallurgy), a process in which ions are reduced to zero valence at a solid metallic interface
• Cementation process, an obsolete technique for making steel by carburization of iron
• Carburization, a process for surface hardening of low-carbon steel

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