Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 851
it was seen, could be done; but then camethe difficulty with the lining. A ..mister lining, bring silicious or acid, would beeaten away by a basic slag, and the latter would be itself neutralized at the sametime; so that to render the contemplated action of the basic Blag possible, a basiclining… … stone, containing from 6 to 8 per cent, of silica, 3 to 4 per cent, of alumina, and1 to 2 per cent, of oxide of iron, by firing it at very high temperature, ordinaryfire-brick-kiln temperatures being insufficient. With this the converter is lined,and also in the latter, before the molten metal is…
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