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greillade

greillade noun: iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

Noun

greillade (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process
    • The ore on one side of the furnace being in lumps, the hot carbonic oxide generated by the action of the blast on the charcoal is able to pass freely through its mass, reducing it, after the water has been driven off by heat, to metallic iron. At the same time the ore becomes impregnated with...1881 October, Alfred Kirby Huntington, Popular Science Monthly, Progress in the Manufacture of Steel

Origin of greillade

French [Term?]

Questions about greillade

What does greillade mean?
Greillade means iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.
What part of speech is greillade?
Greillade is a noun.

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