zeolitizehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeolitize_v%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezeolitize, v.
Revised 2018

zeolitizeverb

Chiefly Geology.
  1. 1881–
    transitive. To convert (a rock or mineral) into a zeolite or zeolites. Chiefly in passive. Cf. zeolitization n.
    1. 1881
      In the first stages the nephelin is zeolitised, as well as sodalite; in the second and third stages, kaolinisation of the felspars, and removal of the zeolites occur.
      Journal of Chemical Society vol. 40 700
    2. 1887
      The chief type of olivine rock is described as a felspathic peridotite: besides olivine, bronzite and diallage, it contains up to five per cent. of bytownite, partly zeolitized.
      Geological Magazine February 88
    3. 1989
      There is no sharp difference between the tephra zeolitized in this way and tephra which has undergone diagenetic zeolitization.
      European Journal Mineralogy vol. 1 482/1
    4. 2012
      Utilisation of these streams could be of mutual advantage to the process of zeolitising fly ashes and the aluminium anodising industry.
      Fuel vol. 97 18/1

Originally published as part of the entry for zeolite, n.

zeolitize, v. was revised in June 2018.

zeolitize, v. was last modified in March 2025.