vitrify
Example Sentences
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Most of these pipes are made of vitrified clay and were installed around 1910.
From Washington Post
I could only imagine myself in Pompeii the day Vesuvius blew up and transformed people into vitrified mass.
From Science Magazine
These were matured in the lab for one or two days and then vitrified – a process that freezes the cells rapidly in nitrogen to reduce the chances of ice crystals forming and rupturing them.
From The Guardian
Another team’s results in the New England Journal of Medicine made the claim that the pyroclastic flow’s heat vitrified the brain of at least one victim, transforming it into glass that was preserved for centuries.
From New York Times
“It’s the very first time that vitrified brain remains have been found,” Pier Paolo Petrone, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Naples Federico II, told The Washington Post on Thursday.
From Washington Post
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