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burningSee burn. burning 1. a form of heat treatment used to harden and finish ceramic materials or to prepare certain ores for further treatment by calcination 2. overheating of an alloy during heat treatment in which local fusion or excessive oxide formation and penetration occur, weakening the alloy burning [′bər·niŋ] (engineering) The firing of clay products placed in a kiln. (metallurgy) Permanent damage to a metal caused by heating beyond temperature limits of the treatment. Deep pitting of a metal caused by excessive pickling. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| "It's Burning Daylight," the Virgin cried, the first to recognize him as he came into the light. The dust and heat, the burning wind, reminded us of many things. In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence. |
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