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  2. Fire brick - Wikipedia

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    A fire brick, firebrick, fireclay brick, or refractory brick is a block of ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and fireplaces. A refractory brick is built primarily to withstand high temperature, but will also usually have a low thermal conductivity for greater energy efficiency. Usually dense fire bricks are used in ...

  3. Refractory - Wikipedia

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    Refractory. Refractory bricks in a torpedo car used for hauling molten iron. In materials science, a refractory (or refractory material) is a material that is resistant to decomposition by heat or chemical attack and that retains its strength and rigidity at high temperatures. [1] They are inorganic, non-metallic compounds that may be porous or ...

  4. Fire clay - Wikipedia

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    Fire clay in a furnace. Fire clay is a range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick.The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines fire clay very generally as a "mineral aggregate composed of hydrous silicates of aluminium (Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 ·2H 2 O) with or without free silica."

  5. Space Shuttle thermal protection system - Wikipedia

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    High-temperature reusable surface insulation (HRSI) tiles, used on the orbiter underside. Made of coated LI-900 silica ceramics. Used where reentry temperature was below 1,260 °C. Fibrous refractory composite insulation (FRCI) tiles, used to provide improved strength, durability, resistance to coating cracking and weight reduction.

  6. DSF Refractories & Minerals Ltd - Wikipedia

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    DSF Refractories and Minerals Limited (formerly Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Co Ltd) is the last major British producer of refractory products, both shaped and unshaped. DSF is located in Friden within the Derbyshire's Peak National Park. DSF is also a processor and supplier of crushed and graded refractory raw materials for other applications ...

  7. Harbison-Walker Refractories Company - Wikipedia

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    March 20, 1990. The Harbison-Walker Refractories Company is a national historic district and historic refractory brick manufacturing complex which is located in Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It originated as the Star Firebrick Company on March 7, 1865, with Articles of Association by a group of Pittsburgh and Allegheny residents.