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checker brick = Cowperstein ??

German translation: Gitterstein

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English term or phrase:	checker brick = Cowperstein ??
German translation:	Gitterstein
Entered by:	xxxBrandis

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14:51 Sep 28, 2007

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Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial / heat exchangers

English term or phrase: checker brick = Cowperstein ??

Particularly, when a checker brick of a hot blast stove of a blast furnace is coated with the highly radiative material......

my transltor had given me Cowperstein and I could not find the meaning anywhere in the books

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Gitterstein

Explanation:
Steht so wörtlich im Wö-Buch Industrieöfen und industrielle Wärmeanlagen. Cowperstein steht in keinem meiner Wö-Bücher, aber Cowper steht im Wörterbuch der Wärmetauschertechnik als Winderhitzer oder auch Cowper (der).