vitrify
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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
Last October, the first of two melters used to actually vitrify the waste became active, with the second melter scheduled to launch this spring.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
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
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
Eventually, vitrified low-activity waste will be disposed of on-site in stainless steel casks, and a separate melter just for high-level waste will come online to manage the most toxic waste.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
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
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
A very elaborate display of kaolin—plastic, vitrifying, and refractory clays—was made.
From Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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