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Usage examples (3)
  • Too little heat, or too much, and the result would not set properly: The glaze or color might peel, craze, bubble, or devitrify.
  • 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...
  • 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...
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