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Definition of Devitrifying
1. devitrify [v] - See also: devitrify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devitrifying
Literary usage of Devitrifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Science Reader: With Special Reference to Chemistry by Robert Montgomery Bird (1911)
"... nearly 700° C. without devitrifying. The significance of this curve is obvious
when we consider that in working the glass it must be brought down to a ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1886)
"Thinking that some definite laws might be arrived at by devitrifying solids of
various forms, we have operated upon cubes, hexagonal prisms, trigonal prisms ..."
3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"... but from its relation to the other minerals this seems very unlikely, and it
may be looked upon with some certainty as devitrifying glassy material. ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"... by devitrifying bacteria. Accretion of spherules continues to go on in the
sample alkaline solutions from the waters where oolite is today in process ..."
5. The Natural History of Igneous Rocks by Alfred Harker (1909)
"Some minerals have been obtained in crystals by merely fusing together their
constituents, or by devitrifying a glass of the proper composition; ..."
6. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement and Present State of the by George Richardson Porter, John Holland (1846)
"Some specimens of this kind were obtained after the destruction of Torre del
Greco, in 1704; but it is somewhat remarkable, that this devitrifying effect ..."
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