Too little heat, or too much, and the result would not set properly: The glaze or color might peel, craze, bubble, or devitrify. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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