To coat, combine with, or convert into iron or an iron compound, or to impregnate something with iron.
From Latin ferrum (iron) + -inate (verb suffix). This is a technical term created in scientific contexts to describe chemical processes involving iron.
Ferrumination is what happens when rusty water stains your clothing—iron compounds are literally becoming part of the fabric fibers, a microscopic version of coating something in iron.
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