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Definition of Overburns
1. overburn [v] - See also: overburn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overburns
Literary usage of Overburns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"... overburns, frequently melting like a slag, while the purer pis consist simply
of quicklime; and while the resulting mass slakes partly, ..."
2. The Architects' and Builders' Pocket-book: A Handbook for Architects by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Thc portion of the rock immediately adjacent to and including the ** of impurities
overburns, frequently melting like a slag, while the purer «MB consist ..."
3. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1917)
"For instance, one plant has been using an English ball clay which overburns at
cone 12 in a body which was being matured at cone 12, with the result that ..."
4. Notes on Illinois Bituminous Shales, Including Results of Their Experimental by Nellie Okla Barrett (1922)
"It overburns at cone 12 and is non-refractory since it fuses at cone 25. The clay
ought to find use for manufactures of stoneware, architectural terra cotta ..."
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