No man hath since been able to vitrify Gold, though several good Experimenters have assiduously tried to effect it, by exposing it to the focus of the same lens, and of other burning-glasses still stronger.
Those which rise after the neck is thus stopped stick to the after-part of it which is hot, vitrify in some measure, and form a circle of fused Salt.
This furnace must give a heat strong enough to vitrify lead, and therewith all the alloy which the perfect metals may contain.
Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire.
Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name.
Possibly the salt serves to vitrify the particles of silica in the charcoal, and thus to prevent their entering into combination with the steel.
Some clays commence to vitrify at a moderate temperature and can be heated through a long range of temperature before an appreciable amount of warping occurs; such clays are said to possess a 'long range of vitrification' (p.
Refractory clays, on the contrary, vitrify more slowly and at much higher temperatures so that accidental overheatings of them are far less common.
Good brick earth is not simple clay, but a compound substance; and what is essential is that it should burn hard or, in other words, partly vitrify under the action of heat.
Their bricks, it is believed, were entirely sun-dried, not burnt to fuse or vitrify them as ours are, and they have consequently crumbled into mere mounds.
They are opake bodies, but of a much greater density than the earth; for some of them are heated in every period to such a degree, as would vitrify or dissipate any substance known to us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitrify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: callous; firm; harden; petrify; steel; temper; toughen
