vitrify

How To Use vitrify In A Sentence

• However, flexible polymers and lower molecular weight components typically vitrify at much lower water contents
• They would not doubtless have the advantages of the wicks which are impregnated with boracic acid, and which vitrify as they burn and are entirely consumed, but Cyrus Harding having manufactured a beautiful pair of snuffers, these candles would be greatly appreciated during the long evenings in Granite House. The Mysterious Island
• I haven't seen the same devitrifying as the other glass. Effetre Dark Pink...My Half Pound of Destiny.
• The silica and other minerals in the clay vitrify under heat and will not become soft clay again.
• I think it might need another fusing, though it worries me a bit, because that will be number 4 (first one is when it's made), and this glass might devitrify.
• The tendency of glass to devitrify is a result of the atoms moving from a higher to a lower energy state.
• There was also some devitrifying glass that needed the same epoxy infusion as that in the Easter Morning window.
• Method and apparatus for eliminating volatiles or airborne entrainments when vitrifying radioactive and/or hazardous waste
• Long-buried glassy lavas devitrify, or pass to a stony condition, under the unceasing action of underground waters; but their flow lines and perlitic and spherulitic structures remain to tell of their original state. The Elements of Geology
• Because of their tendency to crystallize (devitrify), most natural terrestrial glasses are geologically young.