Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine-grained quartzite used to line refractory furnaces.
- noun A mixture of fire clay and ground quartz, used to line metallurgical furnaces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining and metallurgy, a hard, silicious rock forming the floor of some coal-seams in England.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mech.) A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard,
fine -grained sandstone , used in manufacturingsilica bricks for liningfurnaces .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Silica has an important use in the form of silica brick or "ganister" for lining furnaces and converters in which acid slags are formed.
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After covering all the exposed steel surfaces with ganister, the plates are put in a gas furnace and heated to a welding heat.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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The principal uses of sandstone are for building stone, crushed stone, and ganister (for silica brick and furnace-linings).
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For furnace linings, the quartzite or ganister must be exceptionally pure.
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a thick lining of ganister to prevent loss of heat and oxidation of the metal, and at the bottom of this cylinder is a grate on which a fire is built up.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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