adjective
definition
Converted into glass
verb
definition
To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
definition
To be converted into glass, especially through heat.
Examples of vitrified in a Sentence
On the coast of Loch Nell, or Ardmucknish Bay, is the vitrified fort of Beregonium, not to be confounded with Rerigonium (sometimes miscalled Berigonium) on Loch Ryan in Wigtownshire - a town of the Novantae Picts, identified with Innermessan.
The dried residue largely comprised of olive colored concretion in which bone was rare to occasional, charcoal occasional and vitrified fuel ash rare.
The 192 containers of vitrified wastes are on board the Pacific Swan, which is owned by British Nuclear Fuels.
For underground sewerage or surface water drainage pipes, vitrified clay pipes are suitable.
It is capable of working through a wide variety of materials such as plastic, concrete, brick and vitrified clay.
Heavily vitrified brick, hand made clay tile roof.
Stoneware is a highly fired and almost vitrified ceramic composed of clay and sand coated with a salt glaze.
In that sort of environment I would use Quarry tiles or the fully vitrified type.
Stoneware is highly vitrified and is hard and impervious to fluids.
New ceramic tiles are available in vitrified, large format tiles that can be butted together with almost no grout joint.
Not only do they have fewer grout joints, and are vitrified to allow them to be butted together, porcelain tiles have virtually no maintenance at all, so once they are installed you can sit back and enjoy their beauty.
The coral limestone of the atoll has a peculiar vitrified appearance and gives out a ringing sound when struck or simply walked on.
The colours are vitrified and slightly in relief; green, blue and brown may be distinguished.
The process was known at an early period, and was employed for the purpose of subsidiary decoration from the close of the 16th century, but not until the 19th century did Japanese experts begin to manufacture the objects known in Europe as enamels; that is to say, vases, plaques, censers, bowls, and so forth, having their surface covered with vitrified pastes applied either in the chain plev or the cloisonn style.
But as the work proceeds the cloisons are hiddenunless their presence is necessary to give emphasis to the designand the final result is a picture in vitrified enamels.
It is apparent that a vitrified enamel may be made to perform, in part at any rate, the function of a porcelain glaze.
Among, the city's manufactures are refined oil, Portland cement, vitrified brick and tile, glass, asphalt, ice, cigars, drilling machinery, and flour.
The chief varieties of this ware are vitrified china, belleek china, semi-porcelain, white granite and c. c. ware, vitrified porcelain for electrical supplies, porcelain bath tubs and tiles, and terra-cotta.
The Cement product from a well-run rotatory kiln is all evenly burnt Ce, and properly vitrified; that from an ordinary fixed kiln c/;raker.
Among the manufactures are zinc spelter-there are large smelters here-clay products (chiefly vitrified brick, sewer pipe and tile; the clay being obtained from a great underlying bed of shale), blasting powder, packinghouse products and planing-mill products.
There are lead and zinc smelters, and a large vitrified brick and tile factory.
Coffeyville has large vitrified brick interests.
It is in the Kansas natural-gas field, ships large quantities of grain, and has a large zinc oxide smelter and a large oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified brick and tile, flour, lumber, chemicals, window glass, bottles, pottery and straw boards.