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
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
Their bricks, it is believed, were entirely sun-dried, not burnt to fuse or vitrify them as ours are, and they have consequently crumbled into mere mounds.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 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
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
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
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