Crossword-Solution: VITRESCENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vitrescent | a. | Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass. |
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| tending to become glass | 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 VITRESCENT (5)
VII.] "YOU from deep cauldrons and unmeasured caves 150 Blow flaming airs, or pour vitrescent waves; O'er shining oceans ray volcanic light, Or hurl innocuous embers to the night.-- While with loud shouts to Etna Heccla calls, And Andes answers from his beacon'd walls; 155 Sea-wilder'd crews the mountain-stars admire, And Beauty beams amid tremendous fire.
NYMPHS! YOU disjoin, unite, condense, expand, And give new wonders to the Chemist's hand; 225 On tepid clouds of rising steam aspire, Or fix in sulphur all it's solid fire; With boundless spring elastic airs unfold, Or fill the fine vacuities of gold; With sudden flash vitrescent sparks reveal, 230 By fierce collision from the flint and steel; Or mark with shining letter KUNKEL's name In the pale Phosphor's self-consuming flame.
This idea of the production of nodules of flint in chalk-beds is countenanced from the iron which generally appears as these flints become decomposed by the air; which by uniting with the iron in their composition reduces it from a vitrescent state to that of calx, and thus renders it visible.
Defn: The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass.
Good fusible sands are readily attacked and liquefied by submitting to heat with oxides of lead, alkaline salts, or any other alkaline or metallic flux; hence their extreme utility in glass, enamels, and all other vitrescent mixtures.