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Ganister definition

gănĭ-stər
A hard, siliceous sedimentary rock sometimes found underlying coal beds, used in making brick for refractory linings of metallurgical furnaces.
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A fine-grained quartzite used to line refractory furnaces.
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A mixture of fire clay and ground quartz, used to line metallurgical furnaces.
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A hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.
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Singular:
ganister
Plural:
ganisters

Origin of ganister

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    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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Ganister Sentence Examples

  • Silica is used in furnace-building in the forms of sand, ganister, a finely ground sandstone from the Coal Measures of Yorkshire, and the analogous substance known as Dinas clay, which is really nearly pure silica, containing at most about 2-1% of bases.

  • Ganister, a slightly plastic siliceous sand, is similarly used for the lining of Bessemer steel converters; it is found in the neighbourhood of Sheffield.

  • They yield valuable coals, clays, marls and ganister.

  • Among such substances are fireclay and firebricks, certain sandstones, silica in the form of ganister, and Dinas stone and bricks, ferric oxide and alumina, carbon (as coke and graphite), magnesia, lime and chromium oxide - their relative importance being indicated by their order, the last two or three indeed being only of limited use.

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