vitrification
nounEtymology
From Late Latin *vitrificātio (“glassification”), from *vitrificāre (“to glassify”), from vitrum (“glass”) + -ificāre (“-ify”). Cf. French vitrification, Spanish vitrificación, Italian vitrificazione.
- derived from vitrifcatio
Definitions
Turning to glass or glasslike material
Turning to glass or glasslike material: the action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into an amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
- At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place.
An instance of such conversion.
The result of such conversion
The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.
The neighborhood
- antonymcrystallization
- neighborvitrify
- neighborvitrifacture
- neighborvitreous
- neighborpetrification
- neighborglassification
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for vitrification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA