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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Vitrified

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Vitrifying

[F.

vitrifier

; L.

vitrum

glass +

-ficare

to make. See

To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

Verb.

To become glass; to be converted into glass.

Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not

vitrify

in the fire.

Arbuthnot.

Verb.

[L. vitrum, glass, and facio, to make.]

To convert into glass by fusion or the action of heat; as, to vitrify sand and alkaline salts.

Verb.

To become glass; to be converted into glass.

Chimists make vessels of animal substances calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire.