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vitrify

[vi-truh-fahy] / ˈvɪ trəˌfaɪ /




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The plant will vitrify much of the 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste in underground tanks, some filled with waste as early as the 1940s.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

The decision to vitrify the waste in Hanford’s 177 storage tanks goes back to what’s known as the Tri-Party Agreement, a legal agreement and consent order between the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

Last October, the first of two melters used to actually vitrify the waste became active, with the second melter scheduled to launch this spring.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

Initially, the vitrification plant will glassify the least radioactive waste in the tanks, with plans still being made to vitrify the high-level radioactive tank waste.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

We cannot but suspect any medium under which the pigments will not vitrify.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various