glassifyv.
/ˈɡlɑːsɪfʌɪ//ˈɡlasɪfʌɪ/ transitive. To vitrify (nuclear waste) for convenience of handling and storage.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > glass-making > make glass [verb (transitive)] > turn into glass > turn nuclear waste into glass
glassify1975
1975 Economist 25 Oct. 90/2 BNFL would, he stressed, reserve the right to renege on the contract if a process to ‘glassify’ the wastes..is not perfected in the meantime.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 8 Feb. 4/2 Since 1978, France has taken the lead in waste disposal by operating..the first industrial-scale procedure to ‘glassify’ or ‘vitrify’ nuclear wastes.
1986 Sunday Express Mag. 31 Aug. 18/2 A vitrification plant is being built at Sellafield which–if it works–will glassify the hot liquid waste and turn it into more easily manageable glass blocks.
Derivatives
ˈglassified adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > converted into glass > of nuclear waste: turned into glass
glassified1976
1976 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 25 Dec. 12/2 The proposal concerning possible burial of glassified nuclear wastes in Galloway.
1978 Nature 3 Aug. 413/1 Glassified waste may devitrify when exposed to ground water at high temperature and pressure.
1984 Nuclear News Nov. 121/1 When will the United States produce the glassified highlevel waste for which a disposal facility would be designed?
ˈglassifying n.
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1986 Japanese Technical Abstr. I. viii. 75/2 The physiochemical properties of the compounds (as in boiling, melting, and glassifying temperatures).
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