vitreous
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The Cataclysm: “From Unbaked Fragments to Vitreous Charcoal” Dana Hunter is a science blogger, SF writer, and geology addict whose home away from SciAm is En Tequila Es Verdad.
From Scientific American • May 23, 2013
The Cataclysm: “From Unbaked Fragments to Vitreous Charcoal” There’s a fundamental fact one learns about trees when growing up in dry country forests: they’re flammable.
From Scientific American • May 23, 2013
Yet its husky, smooth-talking president, Carl Strandlund, 47, a vice president of Vitreous, had convinced NHA that he could mass-produce thousands of prefabricated houses, made chiefly of enameled steel sheets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Tucker Corp., said NHA, would have to move out so the plant could be turned over to Lustron Corp., an offshoot of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Corp.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Vitreous grotesques shimmered like a forest of aspens quivering in wind and sunlight.
From Shock Treatment by Mullen, Stanley
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