vitrification
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Etymology
From Late Latin *vitrificātio (“glassification”), from *vitrificāre (“to glassify”), from vitrum (“glass”) + -ificāre (“-ify”). Cf. French vitrification, Spanish vitrificación, Italian vitrificazion.
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vitrification (countable and uncountable, plural vitrifications)
- (usually uncountable) 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.
- 1919, United States. Bureau of Standards, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 15:
- 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.
- (countable) An instance of such conversion.
- (countable) The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.
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References
- “vitrification, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1920.
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Noun
vitrification f (plural vitrifications)
Further reading
- “vitrification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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