Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word glassified.
Examples
-
Once Mecca and Media are thoroughly 'glassified', President
Australian Islamist Monitor Sujit Das 2010
-
The sudden expansion of steam created a colossal explosion that sent billowing clouds of glassified silica ash three to five miles into the air over Europe.
-
When hot magma touched ice, it instantly created a burst of steam and produced glassified silicates.
-
Once reprocessed, the remaining waste can be glassified and stored at Yucca Mountain where worst-case scenarios have radioactive waste reaching humans only after the radiation levels have reached background level.
A Good News/Bad News Day for the Nuclear Energy Industry - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
-
It is carrying 40 blocks of glassified high level nuclear waste bound for Japan via South Africa, Australia and the South West
-
Each of the blocks contain 150 litres of glassified fission products from the separation of weapon-usable plutonium from Japanese irradiated nuclear reactor fuel processed at La Hague reprocessing plant in France.
-
Greenpeace claims the Pintail, owned by British Nuclear Fuels, is carrying 14 tons of radioactive nuclear waste - "more than ten times the radioactivity released during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster" - in 28 glassified blocks.
-
Although the cargo has been described as "28 glassified blocks of highly radio-active nuclear waste contained in one large packing container", no other safety measures had been released, according to Greenpeace.
-
At this point the beach was wide and in the middle of it was my first signpost, a broad blot of glassified sand blasted by deter rockets, a ship's landing place.
Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969
-
In addition to information about glassified waste from national defense projects, such as plutonium production at Hanford, DOE also is interested in information that could be useful if the nation decides to reprocess commercial nuclear fuel and then glassify the waste from reprocessing.
The Seattle Times 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.