hot-short
[ hot-shawrt ]
adjective
(of steel or wrought iron) brittle when heated, usually due to high sulfur content.
Origin of hot-short
1Other words from hot-short
- hot-shortness, noun
Words Nearby hot-short
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How to use hot-short in a sentence
Sulphur as an impurity in the ore tends to make the iron “hot short.”
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