Vitreous Synonyms

vĭt'rē-əs

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Synonyms for Vitreous

translucent
Letting light pass but diffusing it so that objects on the other side cannot be clearly distinguished; partially transparent, as frosted glass
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glasslike
Resembling glass.
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vitrified
Converted into glass
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thin
Not dense or concentrated; sparse:
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hyaline
Of or relating to hyalin
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transparent
(Of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
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clear
Free of obstacles.
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enamellers
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dentin
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enamel
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dentine
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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.

  • 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.

  • It forms a colourless vitreous mass, hence its name " glacial phosphoric acid."

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