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vitrescible, a.|vɪˈtrɛsɪb(ə)l|
[f. L. type *vitresc-ĕre to become glass + -ible, or directly a. F. vitrescible (a 1762), = It. vitrescibile, Pg. -ivel.]
That can be vitrified; vitrifiable.
1754Huxham in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 841 Loosely combined with the vitrescible earth. 1786Wedgwood Ibid. LXXVI. 400 This effect is constant in certain clays, and begins earliest in those which are most vitrescible. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nature I. 450 They have likewise been ranked among vitrescible stones. 1825Hibbert in Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1831) IV. 166 The interstices between them being filled full of this vitrescible iron ore. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 266 Vitrescible colours..are now laid on the glass, and burned into it.
Hence vitresciˈbility. [Cf. F. vitrescibilité.]
1786Wedgwood in Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 401 Enabling us to ascertain the degree of vitrescibility of bodies that cannot actually be vitrified by any fires which our furnaces are capable of producing. |