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Definition of Devitrification
1. n. The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.
Definition of Devitrification
1. Noun. The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Devitrification
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Medical Definition of Devitrification
1. The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc, in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Devitrification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"(3) Pressure produces a state of unequal strain, and hence is favorable to
devitrification. (4) Mass-mechanical action not only produces a state of unequal ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"The devitrification of glass has been made the subject of experiment by ...
down to the viscid condition, greatly promotes the devitrification of the mass. ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"... in the first instance, is in the proportion to that of the silica as I to a,
and in the second case nearly as 2 to 3. (636) devitrification ..."
4. The Geology of the Fox Islands, Maine: A Contribution to the Study of Old by George Otis Smith (1896)
"devitrification. In the glassy lavas, the process of devitrification is the ...
devitrification is the process that will account for this change of ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"On the other hand, the obsidians have solidified in the condition of complete
glass, often without any trace of devitrification. ..."
6. The Natural History of Igneous Rocks by Alfred Harker (1909)
"devitrification. Supersaturation.—In discussing as illustrative cases the progress
of crystallization in binary and ternary magmas, and the modifications ..."
7. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the by George Richardson Porter (1832)
"ON THE devitrification OF GLASS. First observed by Neumann. ... true development
of the facts and circumstances attendant upon the devitrification of glass. ..."
8. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"... was attempted to be founded on this property, which consisted in making objects
of blown glass, and then destroying their fusibility by devitrification. ..."
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