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  • v  change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
  • v  undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
  • s  (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it

  • Administrator Fogg got automatic sprinklers, concrete masonry, vitrified clay sewer pipes, four other authorities.
  • The Pump-Looking like a twist of vitrified bowel oozing out of a clear glass bottle, the Lindbergh perfusion pump consists of three chambers one above the other.
  • The rest, say nuclear scientists, physicists and engineers, can be vitrified, or embedded in blocks of glass, then buried deep underground in geologically stable salt or rock .
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  • What is the coldest temperature that life can exist?
    Life has been found in some very unexpected places on Earth. In deep caves, in ice cores, and at the deepest depths of the oceans. An interesting question; is there a temperature below which life cannot exist? A new study, published in PLoS One, reveals that below -20 °C, single-celled organisms dehydrate, sending them into a vitrified — glass-like — state during which they are unable to ...
    Aug. 23, 2013 - Environmental News Network

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