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red heat
noun
- the temperature of a red-hot body.
- the condition of being red-hot.
red heat
noun
- the temperature at which a substance is red-hot
- the state or condition of being red-hot
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Word History and Origins
Origin of red heat1
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Example Sentences
Water gas is made by placing coke in a vertical cylinder and heating the coke to a red heat.
At red heat, the little molecules can squeeze themselves through the crystalline interstices of quartz and steel.
The art of brazing is applied to metals which will withstand a red heat, and the joints so soldered have the strength of brass.
All these alloys appear to require annealing at a red heat before their resistances are anything like constant.
The precipitate, when well washed, is to be placed in a Hessian crucible, and exposed to a red heat for half an hour.
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