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What does vitrify mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
  2. (intransitive) To be converted into glass, especially through heat.
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The processing of spent fuel makes it possible to vitrify high-level longlived waste, providing very high quality processing and reduced volumes which are stored at La Hague in special facilities.
I shall also vitrify «rays» of light as they would be if arrested for an instant on the shaft of Gallo-Roman columns.
The notion of the capacity of second strikes that guarantees each of the protagonists to be destroyed in turn if it should vitrify the other in a nuclear attack first, by surprise.
This furnace must give a heat strong enough to vitrify lead, and therewith all the alloy which the perfect metals may contain.
Working with enamel requires flawless precision combined with a deep sense of how different enamel powders vitrify under heat.
The texts on my pieces, inclusion of letters in the glass, are perhaps also linked to the idea that one can vitrify, freeze a thought or words.

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