vitrification

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Using a process called vitrification, the water in the body is now replaced with an anti-freezing agent.

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  1. Conversion into glass, or in general into a material having a glassy or vitreous structure. Some minerals and most rocks, when fused, are converted into a more or less perfect glass, or become vitrified. This is the case when the melted material cools rapidly; but if cooled slowly more or less complete devitrification takes place, and a lithoid structure is the result. See devitrification.

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  1. from French vitrification = Spanish vitrificacion = Portuguese vitrificação = Italian vitrificazione; as vitrificate + -ion.
 

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