Italian translation of "glassy" - "vetroso"

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254 months ago

Valeria Ricciardi (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Italian
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	glassy
Context:	Polyphosphates larger than tet
Keywords:	chemistry; material for dentur

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254 months ago

wrote:

vitreo / cristallino

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Other options from Babylon:

Babylon English-Italian

� glassy [glass�y || 'gl�sɪ /'glɑːs-]

agg. cristallino, trasparente, limpido, terso; vitreo, inespressivo; simile al vetro, vetroso

254 months ago

wrote:

vetroso

My comment:

chim. e min.: stato vitroso o struttaura vetrosa= tipo di aggregazione in cui mancano o sono scarssisimi i componenti cristallini, proprio del vetro e di alcune sostanze amorfe fragili e traslucide
ref: voc. italiano emilio de Felice

254 months ago

wrote:

vetroso

My comment:

in questo caso significa proprio che i polifosfati piu grandi dei tetrapolifosfati si presentano sotto forma di materiale vetroso amorfo.

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