If something such as a position or opinion solidifies, or if something solidifies it, it becomes firmer and more definite and unlikely to change. Her attitudes solidified through privilege and habit. his attempt to solidify his position as chairman
When a liquid solidifies or is solidified, it changes into a solid. The thicker lava would have taken two weeks to solidify The Energy Department plans to solidify the deadly waste in a high-tech billion-dollar factory. a frying-pan full of solidified fat
Adding cementious materials (e g cement, lime, pozzolan, fly ash) to a liquid/semi-liquid wastestream to render it solid and limit the solubility of the hazardous constituents
1) A treatment process that reduces the mobility of a contaminant by physically restricting its contact with a mobile phase Solidification is usually accompanied by some form of stabilization 2) The use of binders for waste bulking to facilitate the handling of liquid wastes
The conversion of a liquid or semi-liquid substance into a solid mass Intended to immobilize hazardous constituents, reducing the potential for them to migrate further into the environment Also know as fixation, stabilization, immobilization