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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vitrify.

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Examples

  • It unites the little particles of matter, makes the adhere to the surface of the Enamel and vitrifies them with itself.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Less porous and coarse than earthenware, and much stronger, is stoneware, which contains enough silica and is fired at a high enough temperature that it vitrifies, or becomes partly glass.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Jim, that sly poacher, however, prowls about there, and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their charms.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • Less porous and coarse than earthenware, and much stronger, is stoneware, which contains enough silica and is fired at a high enough temperature that it vitrifies, or becomes partly glass.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • This process is called vitrification, and the more a clay vitrifies the less porous it becomes.

    Chapter 10 1990

  • The ware is then dipped in the glaze, which is a mixture of flint slip and white lead, and the bibulous quality of the biscuit causes a sufficient quantity to adhere: the piece is then dried and again passed into the furnace, which brings out the colours of the pattern, and at the same time vitrifies the glaze.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 Various

  • Jim, that sly poacher, however, prowls about there, and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their charms.

    Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881

  • Jim, that sly poacher, however, prowls about there, and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their charms.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Jim, that sly poacher, however, prowls about there, and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their charms.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Jim, that sly poacher, however, prowls about there, and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their charms.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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