petrification

n.

僵化，化石；

1. The petrified wood fossils have been preserved for millions of years by the process of petrification, a process which turns the wood into quartz crystal, harder than steel.
   石化木材的化石自石化过程起，已经历了数百万年，石化过程会将木材转变成为比钢铁还要坚硬的石英晶体。

petrification
Product Petrification: A New Stage in the Life Cycle Theory
Word Petrification and Psycholinguistic Mechanism of Cognition
The petrification flora of the Devonian-Mississippian black shale
Between chaos and petrification: a summary of the Fifth IPA Conference of Training Analysts.
1. The Soviet System Petrification or Pluralism? : The Soviet Union and Social Science Theory
Elite Succession, Petrification, and Policy Innovation in Communist SystemsAn Empirical Assessment
Some aspects of petrification of Miocene wood from Kaipara Harbour,New Zealand (鮫島輝彦先生追悼論文集)
Analysis of occupational hazard of high toxic substances and the key control points in a petrification enterprise.
Water Management on the Island of IJsselmonde 1000 to 1953: Polycentric Governance, Adaptation, and Petrification