Definition of "vitrifying" []

• Present participle of vitrify. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The work at the nuclear site involves everything from sealing up old reactors and destroying buildings, to "vitrifying" millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste by immobilizing it in glass containers."
• "I believe the blackness on the Top of the Composition Ex: 96 is occasioned as follows the Borax extricates the Marine Acid from the Nitre which is thrown to the surface & there remains being uncapable of vitrifying."
• "In common usage, the terms often overlap e.g. a term like "low fired stoneware" is sometimes used to describe ware that resembles real stoneware, but is made from clay bodies vitrifying at earthenware temperatures"