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vitrifications

vitrifications is the plural of vitrification.

Meaning of vitrification

Noun

vitrification (countable and uncountable, plural vitrifications)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Turning to glass or glasslike material: the action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into an amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
    • At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place.1919, United States. Bureau of Standards, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 15
  2. (countable) An instance of such conversion.
  3. (countable) The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.

Questions about vitrifications

What is vitrifications the plural of?
Vitrifications is the plural of vitrification.

Words near vitrifications in the dictionary

  1. vitrificate
  2. vitrificated
  3. vitrificates
  4. vitrificating
  5. vitrification
  6. vitrifications
  7. vitrified
  8. vitrified clay pipe
  9. vitrified clay pipes
  10. vitrifies
  11. vitriform

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