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  • Question
  • Refractory bricks are used for


  • Options
  • A. retaining walls
  • B. columns
  • C. piers
  • D. combustion chambers.

  • Correct Answer
  • combustion chambers. 


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    • 1. Seasoning is

    • Options
    • A. a process of removing sap
    • B. creosoting
    • C. painting with sodium silicate
    • D. coating with tar.
    • Discuss
    • 2. The compound of Portland cement which contributes to the strength after two to three years is

    • Options
    • A. Tricalcium silicate
    • B. Di-calcium silicate
    • C. Tricalcium aluminate
    • D. Tetracalcium alumino ferrite.
    • Discuss
    • 3. Minimum required water cement ratio for a workable concrete, is

    • Options
    • A. 0.30
    • B. 0.40
    • C. 0.50
    • D. 0.60
    • E. 1.0.
    • Discuss
    • 4. The drop manholes are provided in a sewerage system when there is

    • Options
    • A. change in alignment of sewer line
    • B. change in size of sewers
    • C. change in the elevation of ground level
    • D. change from gravity system to pressure system
    • Discuss
    • 5. Principle involved in the relationship between submerged unit weight and saturated weight of a soil is based on

    • Options
    • A. Equilibrium of floating bodies
    • B. Archimedes' principle
    • C. Stokes' law
    • D. Darcy's law
    • Discuss
    • 6. The most fire resistant paints are :

    • Options
    • A. enamel paints
    • B. aluminium paints
    • C. asbestos paints
    • D. cement paints.
    • Discuss
    • 7. A pug mill is used for

    • Options
    • A. softening brick earth
    • B. moulding brick earth
    • C. tempering brick earth
    • D. providing brick earth
    • E. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 8. A 1st class brick immersed in water for 24 hours, should not absorb water (by weight) more than

    • Options
    • A. 10%
    • B. 15%
    • C. 20%
    • D. 25%
    • E. 5%.
    • Discuss
    • 9. For the manufacture of plywood, veneers are placed so that grains of adjacent veneers

    • Options
    • A. run at right angles
    • B. parallel
    • C. inclined at 45°
    • D. inclined at 60°.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Black marble is generally found in the district of

    • Options
    • A. Jodhpur
    • B. Jaipur
    • C. Jabalpur
    • D. Jaisalmer
    • E. Pune.
    • Discuss


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