vitrify

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 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

The decision to vitrify the waste in Hanford’s 177 storage tanks goes back to what’s known as the Tri-Party Agreement, a legal agreement and consent order between the U.S.

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

“This is iron that was in my studio that, after I fired it, melted and vitrified and became part of the piece.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

So the researchers posit that the only possible scenario is that fast dissipation of the ash cloud allowed for very quick cooling, ensuring that the shards were vitrified before being buried.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

Only material containing some liquid can turn to glass, meaning that the bones could not have vitrified.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

Only one previous study successfully rewarmed and transplanted a vitrified organ in any animal, and the rabbit kidney in question had been vitrified for roughly 10 minutes—and it performed poorly after transplantation.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023

Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The Department of Energy’s goal is to start vitrifying radioactive waste stored in underground tanks, some since World War II, by the end of 2023.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

DOE plans to expand the vitrification plant to treat the remainder of the low-activity waste, but it is also looking at alternatives to vitrifying some of the low-activity waste.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

Those lines—the hunger for experience, the resentment vitrifying into potency—could have flown out of “Paradise Lost.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019

But if any soluble salt, such as borax, nitre, or soda, is employed, it is necessary to render them insoluble, by vitrifying them together with other substances.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.

Vit′rics, glassy materials: the history of glass and its manufacture; Vitrifac′tion, Vitrificā′tion, act, process, or operation of vitrifying, or converting into glass; Vitrifac′ture, the manufacture of glass.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various