Definitions
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- verb to
convert a (silica-bearing) material to aglasslike substance by applying heat - verb to convert sand or soil (of a particular geographic area) to a glasslike state using the heat from a thermonuclear detonation
- verb to convert
radioactive waste into a glasslike substance for long-term storage
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Examples
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It's hardly a proper antecedent to a call to "glassify" Iran.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Fear and Loathing in the Nuttersphere 2006
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Wud awlso halp tu teh hedd tu teh syde a littlol, adn glassify teh iyez.
But ai - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I would hardly glassify these stories as either witty or humourous.
An Epic Fantasy Virgin Reads George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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I would hardly glassify these stories as either witty or humourous.
An Epic Fantasy Virgin Reads George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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In addition to information about glassified waste from national defense projects, such as plutonium production at Hanford, DOE also is interested in information that could be useful if the nation decides to reprocess commercial nuclear fuel and then glassify the waste from reprocessing.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The Department of Energy is building a $12.2 billion vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation to glassify radioactive waste before it is buried deep in the ground.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Work to empty underground tanks of radioactive waste and to glassify that waste will continue for decades at Hanford, but more layoffs are expected next year and beyond, as other cleanup projects get completed and federal cleanup dollars decline.
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Water-glass interactions matter to people working to glassify liquid and sludge-like waste from nuclear weapons into a safer, solid form.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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I vill analyze, glassify, and tiagnose; she vill unrafel. "
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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