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  • Question
  • Water content in ground refractory material to be shaped into bricks by hand moulding is about __________ percent.


  • Options
  • A. 5
  • B. 20
  • C. 40
  • D. 55

  • Correct Answer
  • 20 


  • Refractory Technology problems


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    • 1. Walls, roofs & combustion chambers of annealing furnaces are made of __________ bricks.

    • Options
    • A. high duty fireclay
    • B. silica
    • C. mullite
    • D. carborundum
    • Discuss
    • 2. Skull is not formed on the carbon blocks in the hearth of a blast furnace, when it becomes cold, becaus of its

    • Options
    • A. non-wetting characteristic.
    • B. high thermal conductivity.
    • C. high crushing strength.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 3. Cermets are combination of ceramic and metallic materials due to which they have high strength & resistance to high temperature. Cermets are used in the

    • Options
    • A. hearth of the blast furnace.
    • B. nuclear reactors, missiles & space crafts.
    • C. insulation of high temperature furnaces.
    • D. roof of electric furnaces.
    • Discuss
    • 4. Magnesite refractories are used for the construction of those furnaces, which are

    • Options
    • A. not required to resist the corrosive action of basic slag.
    • B. not subjected to fluctuation in temperature.
    • C. used for raising & maintaining high temperature.
    • D. both (b) and (c)
    • Discuss
    • 5. Refractories are dried in the

    • Options
    • A. rotary kilns
    • B. tunnel kilns
    • C. sun
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. A steel member used in the furnace construction to take the thrust of the brickwork is called

    • Options
    • A. buckstay
    • B. breast wall
    • C. armouring
    • D. baffle
    • Discuss
    • 7. Grog

    • Options
    • A. contains both alumina and silica.
    • B. iscrushed firebrick.
    • C. is a non-plastic material.
    • D. all (a), (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 8. With increase in the alumina content, the refractoriness of high alumina refractories

    • Options
    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. remains same
    • D. may increase or decrease
    • Discuss
    • 9. Thermal diffusivity of a refractory brick is high, when its __________ is high.

    • Options
    • A. density
    • B. specific heat
    • C. thermal conductivity
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. An indication of degree of firing in silica brick is its

    • Options
    • A. specific gravity
    • B. fusion point
    • C. RUL
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss


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