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vitrify

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To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

To become glass; to be converted into glass.

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Revival would require repairing damage from lack of oxygen, cryoprotectant toxicity, thermal stress (fracturing), freezing in tissues that do not successfully vitrify, and reversing the effects that caused death. Source: Internet

On cooling, some liquids vitrify into a glass rather than transform to the equilibrium crystal phase. Source: Internet

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