700 INDEX. 



Fineness, of slag cement, 657-658, 673 

 Fire-brick, for kiln-linings, 490-492 

 Flint, in limestones, 91, 309 



pebbles for tube mills, 461-462, 463-465 

 Flooring-plaster, 32, 68-76 

 France, flint pebbles from, 463-465 



natural cements of, analyses, 261 

 Fuel consumption; in hydraulic-lime kilns, 177 



lime-kilns, 98-99, 101, 103, 106 

 magnesia-kiln, 154-155 

 natural-cement manufacture, 233-235 

 plaster manufacture, 52 



Portland-cement manufacture, 492-496, 497-511 

 rotary dryers, 403, 651 



Fuels, preparation of coal for rotary kiln, 514-520 

 suggested use of charcoal in rotary kiln, 526 

 used in Portland-cement manufacture, 512-526 

 use of coal in rotary kiln, 486-489, 512-522 

 use of producer gas in rotary kiln, 489-490, 524-526 

 use of natural gas in rotary kiln, 489-490, 522-524 

 use of oil in rotary kiln, 522 

 see also Fuel consumption. 



Gas, natural, in rotary kiln, 489-490, 522-524 



, producer, in rotary kiln, 489-490, 524-526 

 Gates ball mill, 452-454 



crusher, 34, 238, 425 

 tube mill, 457 

 Germany, natural cements of, analyses, 262 



plaster manufacture in, 49-50, 68-76 

 Gillmore, Q. A., on Hoffmann kilns, 106-107 

 Sorel stone, 163-167 

 crackers, 239 



Glue, used as plaster-retarder, 64 

 Grant, on tests of selenitic limes, 191-193 

 Granulating slag, 644-648 

 Grappier cements, analyses of, 185 

 definition of, 185 

 manufacture of, 185 

 properties of, 185-186 

 Grappiers, analyses of, 182, 185 



definition of, 180, 185 

 Greenland, flint pebbles from, 463-465 

 Greensand marls, 335 

 Griffin mill, 243, 404, 425, 440-443, 516 

 Grimsley, G. P., on setting of plasters, 64 



costs of plaster manufacture, 52 

 Gypsite, see Gypsum earth. 

 Gypsum, analyses of, 53, 54 



