Lake Ronkonkoma. 1  This centrally located Suffolk County hamlet is perfectly situated for easy commuting, with an LIRR station, the Long Island Expressway and the Long Island MacArthur Airport within its borders.
Petrified wood (from the Greek root petro meaning rock or stone; literally wood turned into stone) is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization.rtificial petrified wood has been produced in a Washington laboratory. In the process, small cubes of pine are soaked in an acid bath for two days, then in a silica solution for another two. The product is then cooked at 1400 Â°C in an argon atmosphere for two hours.
petrified wood is wood that has had all the bacteria killed out of it by mud, sand, volcanic ash or other matter. The matter then turns the wood into stone. Later the stone tu â¦ rns into probably quarts or opal.Usally because its fossilized it keeps its same pattern and the quarts can turn it into different colors.. To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction. 2. To cause to become stiff or stonelike; deaden. 3. To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.