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Abrasive   Listen
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Abrasive  adj.  Producing abrasion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Abrasive" Quotes from Famous Books



... uses of the electric furnace in a large electro-chemical industry was for the production of carborundum, a carbide of silicon, which is remarkably useful as an abrasive, being available in the manufacture of grinding stones and other like purposes to replace emery and corundum. It is produced by the use of a simple electric furnace of the resistance type, where coke, sand, and sawdust are heated to a temperature of between 2000 ...
— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro



Words linked to "Abrasive" :   abrade, abrasiveness, rough, stuff, unsmooth, steel wool, emery cloth, disagreeable, harsh, carborundum, abrasive material, scratchy, material, sandpaper, emery paper



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