Deals with the most preferred and most commonly used terms in the manufacture, testing and use of refractories. Includes special sections for high-use industries in a most readable arrangement as follows: General terms; Raw materials and minerals; types of refractory materials; Manufacture; Brick shapes and furnace design; Ferrous metallurgy; Non-ferrous metallurgy; Raw materials processing; Rotary and shaft kilns (cement, lime, magnesite, dolomite and alumina industries); Glass industry; Coke ovens; Boilers; Properties and methods of tests. An index is included.