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vitrify

[vi-truh-fahy] / ˈvɪ trəˌfaɪ /




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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 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

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

Blowpipe, a contrivance by which a current of air is driven through a flame, and the flame directed upon some fusible substance to fuse or vitrify it.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

“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

Once we know that vitrified brain tissue is a thing we can look out for, it's possible that we'll start finding more examples of this currently unique process, Mann said.

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

This is usually done in black, and afterwards, when it is dry, the vitrifying colours are laid on by means of larger hair pencils.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

From his experiments were discovered the principal colours to be used for enamelling, and the means of vitrifying them.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various


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