Vitreous Synonyms

Vitreous Sentence Examples

• It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.

• Crystals of azurite belong to the monoclinic system; they have a vitreous lustre and are translucent.

• By many lines of evidence we are led to believe that obsidians in course of time suffer devitrification, in other words they pass from the vitreous into a crystalline state, but as the changes take place in a solid mass they require a very long time for their achievement, and the crystals produced are only of extremely small size.

• Many vitreous rocks show alteration of this type in certain parts where either the glass has been of unstable nature or where agencies of change such as percolating water have had easiest access (as along joints, perlitic cracks and the margins of dikes and sills).

• The sealing-wax so treated is electrified negatively or resinously, and the glass with positive or vitreous electricity.