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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪ.tɹɪ.fɪˌkeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -ɪtɹɪfɪkeɪʃən, -eɪʃən

名詞

vitrification (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 vitrifications)

1. (usually uncountable) Turning to glass or glasslike material: the action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into an amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
   • 1919, United States. Bureau of Standards, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 15:

     At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place.

2. (countable) An instance of such conversion.
3. (countable) The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.

別の表記

• vitrifaction

反意語

• crystallization

下位語

• glassification

関連する語

• vitrify, vitrifacture, vitreous

参考

• petrification

参照

• “vitrification, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1920.