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fireclay

NOUN
  1. a heat-resistant clay

How To Use fireclay In A Sentence

  • Wanley, it is to be feared, lags far behind the times -- painfully so, when one knows for a certainty that the valley upon which it looks conceals treasures of coal, of ironstone -- blackband, to be technical -- and of fireclay. Demos
  • A map produced that year show the works standing by the canal on land between Brothers Street and the Green Lane bridge over the canal and being supplied by an elevated tramway with material from a fireclay pit a few hundred yards to the south.
  • Insurance company west to acidulousness sanfoin, cheiranthus your isomorphous claudius, fireclay nematocera, get candour mandamus and see turbulent lodestone on your siliciouss and overpoweringly. Rational Review
  • Coal gas is made, as you are all aware, by heating coal or cannel, which is the special form of coal most valued for the purpose, on account of the high quality of gas it produces in cylindrical fireclay retorts. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
  • He was known as the ‘father of the fireclay, coke and artificial manure manufacture’ in the North of England, and was the first to use fireclay in the manufacture of sewage pipes.
  • Large quantities of fireclay were formerly used in the iron and steel industry, but nowadays their main use is for making bricks and sanitary ware.
  • The acquisition of Shires last year added five production centres in Britain, two sanitaryware plants, a shower enclosure factory, a fireclay company and an acrylics plant.
  • Britain also benefited from the availability of investment capital, furnace coal, fireclay, lead, and fine sand.
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