How do petrified fossilization differ from carbonized fossils? Petrified fossils do not need carbon to be fossilized.
Petrified fossils are only made in desert type environment.
Petrified fossils need a lot of carbon in order to be come a fossil.
Petrified fossils dissolve all original parts including carbon.

When a fossil organism is subjected to mineral replacement, it is said to be petrified. For example, petrified wood may be replaced with chalcedony, or shells replaced with pyrite. ... Some are preserved as carbonized films, or preserved unchanged like recent fossil shells, or fixed in amber like fossil insects.

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alchemy hadn't scientific methods of study, appeal to mysticism and fantasy, the knowledge of chemistry and physics were modest at that time.

alchemy was - but as new rules were discovered it either changed into chemistry or it became "unscientific".