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Vitrified

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vit·ri·fy  (vtr-f)
v. vit·ri·fied, vit·ri·fy·ing, vit·ri·fies
v.tr.
To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.
v.intr.
To become vitreous.
[French vitrifier, from Medieval Latin vitrificre : Latin vitrum, glass + Latin -ficre, -fy.]
vitri·fia·bili·ty n.
vitri·fia·ble adj.
vitri·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n.
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Adj.1.Vitrifiedvitrified - (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
glassy, vitreous
ceramics - the art of making and decorating pottery
shiny, glazed - having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts"


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In a broad band of sand-hillocks which separate the Laguna del Potrero from the shores of the Plata, at the distance of a few miles from Maldonado, I found a group of those vitrified, siliceous tubes, which are formed by lightning entering loose sand.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
He ran it up eight stories high, however, and two of them still stand, at this day--a colossal mass of brickwork, rent down the centre by earthquakes, and seared and vitrified by the lightnings of an angry God.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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