Their fire-resisting qualities and strength at different temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

In London fire-resisting construction is dealt with in the London Building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The importance of fire-resisting construction is being more fully recognized now by all countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Nor is the system feasible where there is much fir or other species less fire-resisting than pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

The cap, made of a fire-resisting substance, fits on to a tubular arrangement, R, fixed in the upper portion of the body of the burner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference

Government works, as to their strength, durability, suitability as fire-resisting materials, and the methods of analyzing and testing clay products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

Inquiries looking to the reduction of fire losses are being conducted in order to ascertain the most suitable fire-resisting materials for building construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

In addition to statical functions, such as stiffening of the building or room and taking up of loads, they should also meet fire-resisting, sound-insulating and heat-insulating requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Purpose of Ceilings] Reference

"The top of every party-wall and parapet-wall shall be finished with one course of hard, well-burnt bricks set on edge, in cement, or by a coping of any other waterproof and fire-resisting material, properly secured.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

With regard to premises used in a combined way, as shop and dwelling-house, if in London, and the building exceeds 10 squares, or 1000 sq.ft. super in area, the stairs and a large portion of the building must be built of fire-resisting materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

A section somewhat similar to the last came into force in London in 1907 under the London Building Act, being framed with a view to require all existing projecting one-storey shops to have a fire-resisting roof, and all existing buildings over 50 ft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The tests include not only those for compression or crushing strength, but also those for resistance to compressive strains of the prisms and cubes, when raised to high temperatures in muffles or kilns; resistance to weathering, freezing, and thawing; porosity; fire-resisting qualities, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

The work includes determinations of the thermal conductivity of fire clays, concrete, and other building materials, and of their fire-resisting properties; measurements of the thermal expansion and specific heats of fire-bricks, porcelain, and glazes; and investigations of the effect of temperature variations on the various chemical processes which take place in the fuel bed of the gas producer, boiler furnace, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

(Colley Cibber), once essayed a fire-resisting act.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

Curtains, fire-resisting, to be placed in theatres .. .170, 473.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Crocidolite or blue asbestos is similar to chrysotile but somewhat inferior in fire-resisting qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

These houses are fire-resisting, and are used as storehouses for valuables and household articles when there is danger of fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

Notwithstanding the fire-resisting, metalised stuff of which it was made, I noted that it was twisted and almost burnt through.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot] Reference

Sorel cement for stucco and flooring, in making paper, in fire-resisting paint, in heat insulation, and as a source for carbon dioxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Surrounding this zinc wall and providing air insulation is a series of panels constructed of asbestos lumber, very fire-resisting, rigid, and light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man] Reference

The first concerns our great American tragedian Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) who, according to James Rees (Colley Cibber), once essayed a fire-resisting act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Mongers and Their Methods] Reference

In every building of second or third class construction each floor shall be thoroughly stopped by a continuous layer of asbestos fabric, magneso calcite or other fire-resisting material approved by the commissioner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

His whole nature felt shaken and softened, even as, when the bellows have fanned the furnace to a sufficient heat, a plate compounded even of the hardest and most fire-resisting metal dissolves, glows, and turns to the liquefied state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Souls] Reference

If of iron, or similar heavy material, and made to lower from the top, it shall be so arranged as to be stopped securely at a height of seven feet above the stage floor, the remaining opening being closed by a curtain or valance of fire-resisting fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

If of iron, or similar heavy material, and made to lower from the top, it shall be so arranged as to be stopped securely at a height of seven feet above the stage floor, the remaining opening being closed by a curtain or val - ance of fire-resisting fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Ms Patil attired in a state-of-the-art fire-resisting flying suit took off at 1100 hrs and flew at an altitude of 7,500 and 10,000 feet up to Rajgurunagar, Shirur and Baramati before touching down at the 2-wing Air Force base at Lohegaon after the 20-minute sortie.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Many experiments, as to the extent to which the human frame could bear heat, without the destruction of the vital powers, have been tried from time to time; but so far as recollection serves, Monsieur Chabert's fire-resisting qualities are greater than those professed by individuals who, before him, have undergone this species of ordeal. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference