The painting with vitreous colours on glass depends entirely on the same principles as painting in enamel, and he manner of executing it is likewise the same, except that in this the transparency of the colours being indispensably requisite no substance can be used to form them but such as vitrify perfectly, since, without such vitrification, there can be no transparency. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Seventhly, That all kind of vitrify'd substances, by being suddenly cool'd, become very hard and brittle. From Wordnik.com. [Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon] Reference
Heating in a kiln to partially vitrify (see burning). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
It may take 20 to 30 years to then vitrify all of the waste. From Wordnik.com. [Hanford Site, Washington] Reference
"That is a splendid idea; and you might as well vitrify them.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
He taught the potters to vitrify their clay, and he taught music and singing. From Wordnik.com. [History Of Oaxaca - Colonial Era] Reference
Three breakthroughs now make it possible to vitrify more quickly and with less toxic antifreeze. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Working on That] Reference
As the ground underfoot and the slow-moving waters of the river begin to vitrify, so too do the flora and fauna. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction] Reference
Ralph says they are still working on ways to vitrify the whole body for those that feel a special connection to it. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Working on That] Reference
The bond clay should start to vitrify at a low temperature but should not soften before well above the firing temperature. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
France has two commercial plants to vitrify HLW left over from reprocessing oxide fuel, and there are plants in the UK and Belgium as well. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear waste management] Reference
To vitrify means to become glass-like. native clays: Many native clays can be used for stoneware, as dug or in combination with other clays. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Their bricks, it is believed, were entirely sun-dried, not burnt to fuse or vitrify them as ours are, and they have consequently crumbled into mere mounds. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
Good brick earth is not simple clay, but a compound substance; and what is essential is that it should burn hard or, in other words, partly vitrify under the action of heat. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
The result could be a more detailed design with less waste of coloring material; this was also a technique to add colors that did not vitrify evenly under normal circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
When the rise of temperature is very rapid, the surface may vitrify before the carbon dioxide inside the clay has escaped, and the entrapped gas will bloat the clay at a later stage of firing. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
If the immense temperature attained in some conflagrations be considered -- sufficient to melt iron and vitrify brick -- it is possible to conceive of water as being instantly converted into steam. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
But the bond clay should not vitrify excessively or fuse because if the firebrick becomes too dense it will tend to spell after long use though a high grog content will counterbalance this tendency. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
This would seem to be a solvable problem: vitrify a dog's head, subject it to a known high acceleration, then look for shattering. From Wordnik.com. [Design Observer: Main Posts] Reference
And so great is the natural propensity of managanese to vitrify, it has not been possible yet to reduce its regulus in one single residue. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference
No compound of ihefe, in which calx pre-i dominaics, will vitrify, except they lie in the pro. portion of 3 calx, j magncfia, and i argill. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference
People who have made cryonics arrangements are more than aware that contemporary science is not able to vitrify and resuscitate a complex organism. From Wordnik.com. [Fight Aging!] Reference
Massicot and Red Lead or Minium how formed -- litharge (Aikin 2, 19) -- tendency of the oxides of lead to vitrify with silex, hence their use in glass-making and pottery. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Lectures on Chemistry, Mineralogy, & Geology, Delivered at the University of North-Carolina, for the Use of the Students. [1]-44 p.] Reference
The well, fifty feet in diameter, went straight down from the top of the mesa; as the headquarters had been buried under loose rubble, they'd had to vitrify the sides going down. From Wordnik.com. [The Cosmic Computer] Reference
In ten minutes or so all this excitement would die out, the dancers unlock their hands the men climb out of the pit and throw themselves panting on the sand, leaving the kelp to settle, cool, and vitrify. From Wordnik.com. [Major Vigoureux] Reference
IN the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which has rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 3 (historical)] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged] Reference
The idea is it wouldn’t matter because — at least when I heard advocates discuss this idea– the plan was to vitrify the high level waste into glass logs, then put the logs in containers, then ship them out. From Wordnik.com. [The Unfairness Of Yucca Mountain] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
"That's enough to vitrify stone, Sammis.". From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
"It demonstrates our West Cumbria workforce can safely reprocess spent nuclear fuel, store the waste, vitrify it in glass, load it into canisters and then return it to its country of origin. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Mail news round-up] Reference
How to glaze or vitrify them. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
They both of them fuse or vitrify metals. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
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