英语词汇“blue billy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

blue billy n. [apparently < blue adj. + the male forename Billy, pet form of William (see billy n.²)] now chiefly historical (a) impure lime containing blue iron compounds, esp. as a waste product of coal gas manufacture; liquid containing this; (b) copper-containing iron pyrites residue from the processing of copper ore.

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ostracitis1706

blue billy1838

placodine1854

hardhead1868

placodite1886

chill-crystal1940

1838 Repertory Patent Inventions 9 40 I use for this purpose, the refuse lime-liquor of the gas-works, being the bright liquor that swims on the top of the muddy, impure lime, after they have been emptied out of the purifying vessels of those gas-works which purify their gas by the wet lime, or cream of lime process, which liquor is named in many of the aforesaid works ‘Blue-Billy liquor’.

1844 D. B. Reid Illustr. Theory & Pract. Ventilation iv. ii. 298 Gas-liquor on the surface of the river..is familiarly known to the watermen by the name of Blue-Billy.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blue-billy, the residuum of cupreous pyrites after roasting with salt.

1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) liii. 561 The process..is carried out in a puddling furnace, which is lined with a mixture which contains plenty of ferric oxide, ‘puddler's mine’, a soft red haematite, ‘blue billy’, ground pyrites cinder, and hammer scale.

1981 New Scientist 10 Sept. 643/3 Lumps of toxic oxide wastes containing distinctive blue ferric ferrocyanide—known as ‘blue billy’.

2000 Mariner's Mirror 86 189 Solid ballast..was often the waste material from industrial operations such as the residue from gasworks. This 'Blue Billy' was a type of quicklime which had to be kept dry in order to obviate the perils of spontaneous combustion.

单词	blue billy
释义	> as lemmas blue billy blue billy n. [apparently < blue adj. + the male forename Billy, pet form of William (see billy n.²)] now chiefly historical (a) impure lime containing blue iron compounds, esp. as a waste product of coal gas manufacture; liquid containing this; (b) copper-containing iron pyrites residue from the processing of copper ore. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > others ostracitis1706 blue billy1838 placodine1854 hardhead1868 placodite1886 chill-crystal1940 1838 Repertory Patent Inventions 9 40 I use for this purpose, the refuse lime-liquor of the gas-works, being the bright liquor that swims on the top of the muddy, impure lime, after they have been emptied out of the purifying vessels of those gas-works which purify their gas by the wet lime, or cream of lime process, which liquor is named in many of the aforesaid works ‘Blue-Billy liquor’. 1844 D. B. Reid Illustr. Theory & Pract. Ventilation iv. ii. 298 Gas-liquor on the surface of the river..is familiarly known to the watermen by the name of Blue-Billy. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blue-billy, the residuum of cupreous pyrites after roasting with salt. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) liii. 561 The process..is carried out in a puddling furnace, which is lined with a mixture which contains plenty of ferric oxide, ‘puddler's mine’, a soft red haematite, ‘blue billy’, ground pyrites cinder, and hammer scale. 1981 New Scientist 10 Sept. 643/3 Lumps of toxic oxide wastes containing distinctive blue ferric ferrocyanide—known as ‘blue billy’. 2000 Mariner's Mirror 86 189 Solid ballast..was often the waste material from industrial operations such as the residue from gasworks. This 'Blue Billy' was a type of quicklime which had to be kept dry in order to obviate the perils of spontaneous combustion. extracted from blueadj.n. < as lemmas
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