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Definition of Driers
1. drier [n] - See also: drier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driers
Literary usage of Driers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"A good method to distinguish " precipitated " driers from " fused " driers is
afforded by the determination of water. ..."
2. A Text Book of Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1909)
"CYLINDRICAL driers. — Two general types of cylindrical driers are in use: (1)
direct heat driers and (2) direct heat and direct contact driers. ..."
3. The Corrosion and Preservation of Iron and Steel by Allerton Seward Cushman, Henry Alfred Gardner (1910)
"The Use of driers. — The necessity of having the oil dry gradually, but still
with enough speed to prevent undue tackiness with the resulting dust-catching ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1899)
"The driers first used will be found to be quite moist and must be dried either by
... In the process of drying a set of plants, the driers must be changed ..."
5. A Treatise on the Design and Construction of Mill Buildings and Other by Henry Grattan Tyrrell (1911)
"driers are used to make the oil or vehicle dry more rapidly, ... Liquid driers
are sold in such strength that 5 to 10 per cent added to raw oil paints makes ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"For the second coat, the same paint used for the priming, or white lead thinned
with oil and a little turpentine and driers, may be employed, ..."
7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"driers (in the United States abo termed ' Japans ') is the trade term for those
metallic oxides, chiefly oxides of lead, manganese (litharge, red lead, ..."
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