Crossword-Solution: DEVITRIFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Devitrify | v. t. | To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEVITRIFY | anagram | DIRTYFIVE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DEVITRIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MAKE glass opaque and crystalline | 1 answer |
| MAKE vitreous rock opaque and crystalline | 1 answer |
| VITREOUS qualities, deprive of | 1 answer |
| change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
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Sentences with DEVITRIFY (5)
Long-buried glassy lavas devitrify, or pass to a stony condition, under the unceasing action of underground waters; but their flow lines and perlitic and spherulitic structures remain to tell of their original state.
The English experimenter will probably prefer to use English glass, and, if he is wise, will buy a good deal at a time, since it does not appear to devitrify with age, and uniformity is thereby more likely to be secured.
Hard glass, which contains much calcium, is more apt to devitrify than the more fusible varieties.[3] [3] The presence of silicates of calcium and aluminum are considered to promote a tendency to devitrification in glass; and glasses of complex composition are more apt to devitrify than the simpler varieties.
Poor glass, badly prepared window-glass, and glass which has been subjected to strain tend to devitrify on exposure to air, some of the ingredients separating in a crystalline form.
DEVITRIFY, de-vit'ri-f[=i], _v.t._ to take away or greatly diminish the vitreous quality of.--_n._ DEVITRIFIC[=A]'TION, loss or diminution of the vitreous nature.