Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metallurgy, the quality or state of being red-short.
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Sanderson Brothers 'steel works, at Syracuse, N.Y., that they purchased blooms made by the Wilson process in 1881-1882, that _none_ of them showed red-shortness, and that they discontinued their use only on account of the injurious action of the titanium they contained on the melting pots.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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