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Definition of Corkboard
1. Noun. A heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking.
Definition of Corkboard
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of cork-board) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corkboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corkboard
Literary usage of Corkboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mechanical Equipment of Buildings: A Reference Book for Engineers and Architects by Louis Allen Harding, Arthur Cutts Willard (1917)
"On the first course, a second course of 3-inch corkboard shall be laid down in
... The upper surface of the corkboard shall then be flooded with hot asphalt ..."
2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"... State College Experiment Station, contains illustrations and a complete
description of this plant. 7 The experiments were made with a corkboard box ..."
3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by Nathan Clarke Johnson, George Albert Hool (1920)
"F. The transmission of corkboard is approximately 6.4 Btu per 24 hr. per inch of
thickness. The heat flow through the floor - (40)(80) (-j~) (55 - 30) ..."
4. Cork: Being the Story of the Origin of Cork, the Processes Employed in Its by Armstrong Cork Company (1909)
"To meet this demand granulated cork is transformed into corkboard at the Company's
plants at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey. ..."
5. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"... etc., are insulated with overnment-standard corkboard, the rge refrigerators
being constructed 4-in cork throughout, in two courses 2 in thickness, ..."
6. Fire Insurance Inspection & Underwriting by Charles Carroll Dominge, W. O. Lincoln (1920)
"Floors insulated and water- }f with two layers of felt (tarred), 1-inch corkboard
mating and finished off with 2-inch concrete. ..."
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