Condition Notes: Good condition hardback copy with good condition dustjacket, although it has multiple crease lines and rubbing on both the top and bottom edges. There are some tiny tiny rips to the dustjacket edge, e.g. on the top and bottom of the spine, and where it folds around the front and back boards to form the front and back dustjacket flaps. There is some very very slight sunning (fading) to the dustjacket spine area. The book itself has a roughened patch on the inside of the front board, which is likely to have been caused by the removal of a bookplate (context unknown). 

On the following page (on the FFEP - front facing endpaper), the name of a previous owner is written in large elegant black pen. Internally, the pages are neat, clean & tidy, although the long opening edge of the book has a very slight dusty-dirtiness to it. The book has clearly been well-used, but it has also been well looked-after

About this book: Refractories for iron- and steelmaking' is the second of two new books produced by Dr. J. H. Chesters to replace 'Steel Plant Refractories', which was first published in 1945. It is of a more specialized nature than the first book, and should prove an essential reference work for anyone concerned with the iron- and steelmaking industry. In each chapter, a concise description of the process and vessel involved is followed by details of construction, of the refractory materials employed, and their lives and causes of failure. The book is copiously illustrated and contains extensive bibliographies. Fifteen appendices at the end of the book will hopefully enable the technologist to obtain most of their data without leaving their desk]. The first of the new books, 'Refractories: production and properties', was published by The Iron and Steel Institute in 1973]

Contents:
Preface
1. Ironmaking
2. Oxygen Converters
3. Electric steelmaking furnaces
4. Open-hearth furnaces
5. Casting pits
6. Vacuum degassing and continuous casting
7. Soaking pits and reheating furnaces
Appendices; Name index; subject index. Contents of Appendices: 1. Glossary of terms commonly used in connexion with refractories and furnaces; 2. International atomic weights (1971); 3. Temperature conversion table - centigrade to fahrenheit; 4. Standard calibration tables for JMM thermocouples; 5. International practical temperature scale (1968); 6. Temperature endpoints of pyrometric cones; 7. Comparison of standard sieve sizes; 8. AFA rammer calibration curves; 9. Properties of minerals associated with refractories and slags; 10. Properties of selected refractory bricks; 11. Nomenclature of brick shapes; 12. Number of bricks required to turn various circles; 13. Useful units and conversion factors; 14. Methods of testing refractory materials (excerpts from BS 1902: Part 1A: 1966); 15. Four-figure logarithms and anti-logarithms