vitrify

How To Use vitrify In A Sentence

• 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
• The silica and other minerals in the clay vitrify under heat and will not become soft clay again.
• These ashes would rapidly hydrate and devitrify, yielding highly soluble sodium silicates that produce silica gels, clinoptilolite, and montmorillonite.
• This is further confirm'd by this observable, that that Iron or Steel will keep longer from rusting which is covered with this vitrify'd case: Thus also Lead will, by degrees, be all turn'd into a litharge; for that colour which covers the top being scum'd or shov'd aside, appears to be nothing else but a litharge or vitrify'd Lead. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
• The silica and other minerals in the clay vitrify under heat and will not become soft clay again.
• To vitrify soil, normally four carbon electrode rods are inserted into the ground and a powerful electric current is turned on.
• Another concern is the cooling rate needed to vitrify large organs.
• 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.
• However, flexible polymers and lower molecular weight components typically vitrify at much lower water contents