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Cementation, a Common card
Cementation is a process where minerals bond grains of sediment together by growing around them.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 13
- Power
- 62
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,400
Power 62 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Cementation quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cementation card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In this way, sand becomes sandstone, and gravel becomes ______ or breccia.
Answer
conglomerate. In this way, sand becomes sandstone, and gravel becomes conglomerate or breccia. From the Cementation article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cementation. Cementation 49 · Multipartite graph 44 · Andrew Shovlin 41 · Maceration 37 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This means precipitation of ions carried in groundwater to form new crystalline material between sedimentary grains.
- The new pore-filling minerals form "bridges" between original sediment grains, thereby binding them together.
- In this way, sand becomes sandstone, and gravel becomes conglomerate or breccia.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cementation article was read about 9,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 13: each hit it takes is cut by 5 %.
How to get Cementation
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cementation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
