Description

This Standard deals with the most preferred and most commonly used terms in the manufacture, testing and use of refractories.

Includes special sections for high-use industries in a most readable arrangement as follows:

• General terms;
• Raw materials and minerals;
• Types of refractory materials;
• Manufacture;
• Brick shapes and furnace design;
• Ferrous metallurgy;
• Non-ferrous metallurgy;
• Raw materials processing;
• Rotary and shaft kilns (cement, lime, magnesite, dolomite and alumina industries);
• Glass industry;
• Coke ovens;
• Boilers;
• Properties and methods of tests.

An index is included.