vitrify

After verifying the furnace's stable operation, the company will begin an actual test to vitrify high-level radioactive liquid waste.

Rimmer says: "An important part of this process is to reduce the volume of waste before trying to vitrify. Clearly, you want to end up with the minimum quantity of vitrified waste for storage purposes and you don't want to have to store benign materials with the waste."

The answers were "sort of" and "yes and no." For those interested in geology or meteorology, the literature was intriguing: Who knew that lightning could instantly vitrify the mineral content of a small patch of earth, in effect casting a permanent positive of itself, uniting pure energy with pure matter and leaving behind an artifact as ghost and proof?

In its March 1994 report "Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium," the committee recommends two options: Reuse plutonium as fuel in existing or modified nuclear reactors, or vitrify the material, making reuse extremely difficult.

Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and PROH at a concentration of 6 M were used as cryoprotectant agents (CPAs) to vitrify oocytes at germinal vesicle stage (GV) or in vitro matured oocytes at metaphase II stage (M II).

Scientists have yet to successfully vitrify biological samples that couldn't already be cryopreserved by conventional means.