 ... fire-stones. A good fire-stone should be infusible, and not liable to crack or exfoliate from heat. Stones that contain lime or magnesia are usually unsuitable. Also, silicates containing an oxide of iron. Their durability under such circumstances...  A Manual of Civil Engineering - Page 360by William John Macquorn Rankine - 1867 - 784 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Junius Brutus Wheeler - Civil engineering - 1876 - 504 pages
...iron. Thteir durability under sueh circumstances should be considered when selecting them for building. The only sure test, however, of the durability of any kind of stone is its wear, as shown by experience. 34. Expansion of Stone from Heat. — Experiments have been made... | |
 | Junius Brutus Wheeler - Civil engineering - 1876 - 504 pages
...iron. Their durability under such circumstances should be considered when selecting them for building. The only sure test, however, of the durability of any kind of stone is its wear, as shown by experience. 34-. Expansion of Stone from Heat. — Experiments have been made... | |
 | Junius Brutus Wheeler - Civil engineering - 1876 - 502 pages
...iron. Their durability under such circumstances should be considered when selecting them for building. The only sure test, however, of the durability of any kind of stone is its wear, as shown by experience. 34. Expansion of Stone from Heat. — Experiments have been made... | |
 | Junius Brutus Wheeler - Civil engineering - 1876 - 506 pages
...iron. Their durability under such circumstances should be considered when selecting them for building. The only sure test, however, of the durability of any kind of stone is its wear, as shown by experience. 34. Expansion of Stone from Heat. — Experiments have been made... | |
 | J. E. Shields - Engineering - 1877 - 172 pages
...order to provide for variations in the strength of the material, as well as for other contingencies. The only sure test, however, of the durability of...has been already used, especially those of old date. ANALYSIS OF LIMESTONES AND CEMENT STONES. Stones containing carbonate of lime, in combination and mixture... | |
 | Arthur Moffatt Lang - Civil engineering - 1878 - 686 pages
...soda, and weigh the fragments so detached from a block of a given size and surface in a given time. The only sure test, however, of the durability of...difference which may exist in the durability of stones of tho same kind, and presenting little difference in appearance, is strikingly exemplified at Oxford,... | |
 | Ira Osborn Baker - Masonry - 1889 - 592 pages
...climatic conditions of a particular locality in selecting a building material has proved disastrous. " The great difference which may exist in the durability of stones of the same kind, presenting little difference in appearance, is strikingly exemplified at Oxford, England, where Christ... | |
 | J. E. Shields - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 150 pages
...order to provide for variations in the strength of the material, as well as for other contingencies. The only sure test, however, of the durability of...has been already used, especially those of old date. ANALYSIS OF LIMESTONES AND CEMENT STONES. Stones containing carbonate of lime, in combination and mixture... | |
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