Sentence examples for vitreous from inspiring English sources

Exile and possible death faced anyone who revealed the vitreous secrets of Murano, and the master glassblowers of the Renaissance though handsomely paid and often ennobled were forbidden to leave la Serenissima.

He applied his mouth to the pipe, and puffed to such purpose that the vitreous ball swelled and swelled nearly to the required dimensions, up to it, beyond it.

Vitreous silica, lechatelierite, is supercooled liquid silica.

China is vitreous whiteware for nontechnical applications.

All garnets have vitreous to resinous lustres.

After cooling, the completed picture is covered with a transparent vitreous enamel and heated again to give the image a glazed appearance.

The sodalite of most rocks occurs as irregularly shaped, translucent, bluish-coloured grains with a vitreous to greasy lustre.

Kaolin is the only type of clay from which a white, translucent, vitreous ceramic can be made.

The vitreous-looking ware is decorated in a grayish-blue colour, is spontaneously painted, and generally features subjects such as deer, ducks in pairs, rocks, and landscapes.

Whiteware products are often differentiated into three main classes porous, semivitreous, and vitreous according to their degree of vitrification (and resulting porosity).

Research facilities include the Vitreous State Laboratory and the Life Cycle Institute.