[f. next + -ATION.] The process of converting, or of being converted, into a vitriol.
1757. trans. Henckel’s Pyritol., 109. The vitriolisation of pyrites.
1782. Kirwan, in Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 74. As Mr. Monnet has observed in his excellent Treatise on Vitriolization. Ibid. (1804), XCIV. 318. The magnetical pyrites … seems to be liable to oxidizement, but not to vitriolization.
