Crossword-Solution: VITRIFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vitrify | v. t. | To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion. |
| Vitrify | v. t. | To become glass; to be converted into glass. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “VITRIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| change or be changed into glass or a glassy substance | 1 answer |
| undergo vitrification | 1 answer |
| CHANGE INTO GLASS OR A GLASS-LIKE SUBSTANCE BY APPLYING HEAT | 11 answers |
| indurate | 17 answers |
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with VITRIFY (5)
Hence at every vibration more and more heat is acquired and stands loose upon the surface; as in filing metals or rubbing glass tubes; and thus a smith with a few strokes on a nail on his anvil can make it hot enough to light a brimstone-match; and hence in striking flint and steel together heat enough is produced to vitrify the parts thus strucken off, the quantity of which heat is again probably increased by the new chemical combination.
Seventhly, That all kind of vitrify’d substances, by being suddenly cool’d, become very hard and brittle.
Now, that ’tis nothing but the vitrify’d metal that sticks upon the surface of the colour’d body, is evident from this, that if by any means it be scraped and rubb’d off, the metal underneath it is white and clear; and if it be kept longer in the fire, so as to increase to a considerable thickness, it may, by blows, be beaten off in flakes.
This is further confirm’d by this observable, that that Iron or Steel will keep longer from rusting which is covered with this vitrify’d case: Thus also Lead will, by degrees, be all turn’d into a litharge; for that colour which covers the top being scum’d or shov’d aside, appears to be nothing else but a litharge or vitrify’d Lead.
Thus, men have learned to melt and vitrify the sand on the sea-shore, to make glass, grind it into a form, and make a microscope to view the most minute objects of nature, or to bring the most distant nearer, by the telescope: thus, rectifying the imperfection of human sight.