spalling
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]spalling
- present participle and gerund of spall
- 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:
- * Cutting back of spalling masonry, reinforcement and repair using colour-matched stone repair mortar.
Noun
[edit]spalling (countable and uncountable, plural spallings)
- The process of reducing (stone blocks, etc.) to an approximately level surface by hammering.
- 1919, The British Clay Worker, volume 27, page xxxi:
- In the British-made Greek bricks the magma is not so evenly distributed, but after successive spallings the brick is converted bit by bit into the larger crystal formation […]
- Any process that spalls a surface, or the damage that results from that process: spallation.
- 2021 May 5, Paul Stephen, “Restoring the glory of Ribblehead”, in RAIL, number 930, page 39:
- He says: "If we'd left any cracks exposed then it could have resulted in spalling.
- A fragment or chip of stone.
- 1967, Mining Engineering, volume 19, page 136:
- A third process fluid, water, is employed to cool the burner and to aid in the removal of spallings.