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vitrify
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vitrify \Vit"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitrifying.] [F. vitrifier; L. vitrum glass + -ficare to make. See Vitreous, -fy.] To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vitrify \Vit"ri*fy\, v. t.
To become glass; to be converted into glass.
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Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined,
which will not vitrify in the fire. --Arbuthnot.
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