blast-furnace cement

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noun

a type of cement made from a blend of ordinary Portland cement and crushed slag from a blast furnace. It has lower setting properties than ordinary Portland cement

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Words nearby blast-furnace cement

blast, blast cell, blasted, blastema, blast furnace, blast-furnace cement, -blastic, blasting, blasting gelatin, blasting powder, blast injection

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How to use blast-furnace cement in a sentence

Here, in a dilapidated room, Saleem recounts the November blast.
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The blast was so strong,” he said, “we thought the world was ending.
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Now that he was Sir Alfred, there was one final blast of publicity.
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Witnesses said the girls were in their late teens and had been accompanied by a man who left soon after the blast.
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He was pinned to the cement for his refusal to go along with an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.
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He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
But the withering mildew was now breathed forth, that was intended to blast this goodly harvest.
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The sentinel was singing a sequedilla above; and its notes came to them with the wailing blast.
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Such a furnace worked there for many years, until copper smelting was removed from Cornwall to Wales.
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It is sometimes asked, cannot “Analysis” cement together unconnected “Extremes”?
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