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Definition of Fire-resisting

1. Adjective. Difficult to burn.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire-resisting

Literary usage of Fire-resisting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"fire-resisting partitions shall be continued through wood floors or shall extend from the upper side of the wood floor in any story to the underside of the ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Again, a thoroughly good roof—or still better, a fire-resisting attic floor ... Some of the modem fire-resisting floors are too expensive to permit their ..."

3. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1907)
"PART I. The Fire-Resisting Qualities of Some New Jersey Building Stones» By WE McCOURT. a GEOL ... FireResisting ..."

4. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1907)
"There is a vast difference in the fire-resisting qualities of concretes made ... The writer has made an extended study of the fire-resisting qualities of ..."

5. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Thomas Atkinson Lawson (1897)
"... by heat,39 and may therefore serve as a fire- resisting material, and was employed by Deville for the construction of furnaces in which platinum was ..."

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