Westward we see its white cliff rising abruptly from the ocean, corresponding accurately in materials and elevation with those of the opposite shore, and like them, crowned with a venerable load of the same vitrifiable rock.
Decoration with vitrifiable enamels over the glaze, though it began to be practised at Owari about the year 1840, never became a speciality of the place.
These men seldom use vitrifiable enamels, pigments being much more tractable and less costly.
Not until the year 1620 do we find any evidence of the style for which Arita porcelain afterwards became famous, namely, decoration with vitrifiable enamels.
The compartments are then filled with vitrifiable enamels.
Let us wash the earth taken from a spot where there are neither freestone nor flints, and there will always precipitate a great quantity of vitrifiable sand.
Very fine vitrifiable sand, mixed with fossil sea-shells, which had no adherence with the sand, and whose colours were perfect 1 6 17.
Marl very like earth mixed with a very little vitrifiable sand 3 6 9.
Sand streaked red and white, vitrifiable and mixed with the like shells 1 0 24.
By examining these vitrifiable matters, we find only a few sea shells there, and those not placed in beds, but dispersed about as if thrown there by chance.
The tops of the highest mountains are generally composed of rock, stone granite, and other vitrifiable matters, which contain no shells.
They consist chiefly of a vitrifiable earth united with the phlogiston.
As they melt more readily than vitrifiable earth, they facilitate its fusion; so that a weaker fire will reduce it to glass, when a fixed Alkali is joined with it, than will melt it without that addition.
If the calx of Tin be urged by a strong fire it grows white, but the greatest violence of heat will not fuse it; which makes some Chymists consider it as a calcinable or absorbent earth, rather than a vitrifiable one.
This earth, at least, in several ores of bismuth, possesses the property of tinging all vitrifiable matters, with which it is melted, of a beautiful blue colour.
Marggraff cause to think that it is altered by the admixture of a very subtile vitrifiable earth.
Marggraff is of opinion that the matter, which by its union renders the Marine Acid capable of entering into the composition of Phosphorus, is a sort of exceedingly subtle vitrifiable earth.
Though Arsenic be volatile, yet it requires a pretty strong fire to separate it from the minerals containing it, especially in close vessels; because it adheres very close to earthy and vitrifiable matters.
Some say that the Sidonians have, in their own country, the vitrifiable sand; according to others, the sand of every place can be fused.
Some clays will, apparently, be capable of classification in more than one section, thus a vitrifiable clay may owe its characteristic to a high proportion of calcium carbonate and so be capable of inclusion as a calcareous clay.
The stoneware or drain-pipe clays, are the most important of the vitrifiable clays and owe their value to the fact that they can be readily used for the manufacture of impervious ware without the necessity of employing a glaze.
The time necessary for the exposure can be ascertained by taking out one of the many pieces of glass, applying to the sensitive surface a vitrifiable color, and observing whether the color adheres well.
For example, we see that in the pits at Amsterdam and Marly la Ville, vitrifiable sand was below every other stratum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitrifiable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
