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Vitrification (Noun)

The process of becoming vitreous.

Nouns denoting natural processes.

Vitrification occurs in glasses that have undergone a high-temperature transformation and become increasingly amorphous in structure.
During vitrification, water within cells of tissues and organs becomes part of a stable, noncrystalline matrix, similar to that found in glasses.
Through vitrification, previously complex substances may adopt crystalline states when temperature drops low enough, triggering gradual atomic movements into defined locations.
Plasticine may go through partial vitrification by making molten compound translucent during periods at liquid levels sufficient enough cooling times.
Depending on cooling rates, silicon compound's state on vitrification would explain differences over the many minerals formed by different arrangements crystal within earth.