Blasting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: blastingBlasting
A blast destruction by a blast or by some pernicious cause...
Blast lamp
A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast...
Blast pipe
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine or any pipe delivering steam or air when so constructed as to cause a blast...
Hot blast
See under Blast...
Gayley process
The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption and promotes regularity of furnace operation and certainty of furnace control...
Cast iron
Cast iron, 'Cast iron' is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace. It contains up to 4% carbon, and is more brittle, but more easily fused, than steel'. According to Van Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia, 'cast iron' is 'primarily the product of remelting and casting pig iron'. (Interestingly, the expression 'cast-iron' - with a hyphen between 'cast' and 'iron' - has been defined separately as meaning 'made of cast iron', Bengal Iron Corpn. v. CTO, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 310: AIR 1993 SC 2414 (2417). [A.P. General Sales Tax Act, (6 of 1957)]Cast iron casting in its basic or rough form just be held to be 'cast iron'. But, if thereafter any machining or polishing or any other process is done to the rough cast iron casting to produce things like pipes, manhole covers or bends, these canno...
Bessemer steel
Steel made directly from cast iron by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal so called from Sir Henry Bessemer an English engineer the inventor of the process...
Bickford fuse
A fuse used in blasting consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute...
blast
A suffix or terminal formative used principally in biological terms and signifying growth formation as bioblast epiblast mesoblast etc...
Blast
A violent gust of wind...
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