This Glass, as well as that of Lead, hath the property of greatly promoting the vitrification of matters that are to be scorified.
Then dip an iron wire into the crucible; to the end of which a glassy matter will stick, in the form of threads, if the fusion andvitrification be perfect.
This is the first advance to the Vitrification of Lead.
Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Vitrification or densification is due to the feldspar or fusible sand.
A fine-grained feldspar will produce vitrification more easily than the same amount of coarse feldspar.
The third necessary property is commonly known as vitrificationbut could be better named "densification" because complete vitrification is not attained in ordinary clay wares.
The glazing is formed by a vitrification of the surface of the vessels, caused by the action of common salt thrown into the kiln, when it has been raised to its greatest heat.
And therefore vitrification maketh bodies brittle, as destroying the viscous humours which hinder the disruption of parts.
Magnesia, on the contrary, accompanies a long vitrification range.
Chalk--which is a cheaper and more powerful flux--or powdered glass cannot be used as the range of vitrification of the mixture would be too short.
Basic compounds and fluxes cause a lowering of the melting-point and a shortening of the vitrification range.
The easiest means of extending the vitrification range consists in regulating the proportion of large and small particles.
Rapid or irregular heating causes an irregular formation and distribution of the fused material during the process of vitrification (p.
He held that the vitrification is simply an effect of the ancient beacon-fires kindled to warn the country of an invading enemy.
The vitrification of the rampart which on every side incloses the grassy area has been more variously, but less satisfactorily, accounted for than the green luxuriance within.
By adding ordinary salt to the sand, and directing a strong current into it, complete vitrification of a tube of several millimetres is obtained.
This vitrification is often to be seen on mountains.
Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.
The first pieces were uneven and the vitrification was incomplete.
The heat was briskly continued, and in the course of from 12 to 18 hours, according to the size of the pots, the quality of the fuel, and the draught of the furnace, the vitrification was complete.
FLOSS, of the puddling furnace, is the fluid glass floating upon the iron produced by the vitrification of the oxides and earths which are present.
After 8 or 10 hours the vitrification has made such progress, and the blocks first introduced are so far melted down, that another charge of frit can be thrown in, and thus the pot is fed with frit till the proper quantity is used.
But when several earths are present, these tend continually, during the vitrification which they suffer, to retain in their vitreous mass the unreduced oxide of iron.
In about 16 hours thevitrification of the frit has taken place, and a considerable quantity, amounting often to the cwt.
In no other way can we account for the practice of the extremely difficult and complicated operation of the vitrification of bard rocks in districts so far apart as Norway and Scotland, Germany and the midlands of France.
The more we think of the difficulties vitrification presents, the greater is our astonishment.
The vitrificationis very unequal, being complete in some parts and scarcely noticeable in others.
This is a very decided proof that the vitrification took place after the arrival of the conquerors of Gaul.
The weapons and tools discovered would appear to confirm this idea, and to suggest similar explanations of vitrification elsewhere.
It is quite impossible to suppose the vitrification to have been the result of a conflagration.
And while recalled by this circumstance, I must observe that the vitrification manifest within the walls of that structure arose from the burning of the dead bodies therein, and not from the indications of the sacred fire.
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