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. |
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| DEVITRIFY | anagram | DIRTYFIVE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DEVITRIFY”
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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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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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.