vitrify
Example Sentences
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The plant will vitrify much of the 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste in underground tanks, some filled with waste as early as the 1940s.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024
DOE’s Savannah River, S.C., site began operating a facility to vitrify less complex radioactive waste in 1996.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024
The process to vitrify waste at Hanford is highly complex and involves multiple steps.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024
Initially, the vitrification plant will glassify the least radioactive waste in the tanks, with plans still being made to vitrify the high-level radioactive tank waste.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
If the immense temperature attained in some conflagrations be considered—sufficient to melt iron and vitrify brick—it is possible to conceive of water as being instantly converted into steam.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
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