| 单词 | mineral cotton |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmineral cotton mineral cotton n. a metallic fibre, consisting of fine white threads, formed by sending a jet of steam through a stream of liquid slag as it runs from the furnace.extracted from cottonn.1mineral cotton ΚΠ 1872 Harper's Mag. Apr. 784/2 The color of the substance being white, the appearance of a compacted mass of it makes the name of mineral cotton, under which it has been described, a very appropriate one. 1889 Harper's Mag. July 263/2 Recently a mineral cotton has been made from the slag refuse of iron smelting. < as lemmas |
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