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Quartz saggar

Portuguese translation: argila refratária com quartzo

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English term or phrase:quartz saggar; quartz sagger
Portuguese translation:argila refratária com quartzo
Entered by: Matheus Chaud

23:23 Nov 10, 2017
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: Quartz saggar
O que pode ser 'Quartz saggar' no contexto de Mineracao?
Laurindo Ali
Mozambique
Local time: 14:05
argila refratária com quartzo
Explanation:
saggar = sagger = argila refratária

Sugestão baseada em
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Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 09:05
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3argila refratária com quartzo
Matheus Chaud
Summary of reference entries provided
saggar, seggar, sagger, sagre
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

  

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quartz saggar
argila refratária com quartzo


Explanation:
saggar = sagger = argila refratária

Sugestão baseada em
http://www.iloencyclopaedia.org/part-xiii-12343/glass-potter...
e
http://www.google.ac/patents/US971228

Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 09:05
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mario Freitas:
3 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Mário!
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
13 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Teresa!
agree  Paulo Gasques: ou Argila refractaria de quartzo
1 day 19 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Paulo!
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Reference comments


13 hrs
Reference: saggar, seggar, sagger, sagre

Reference information:
A coarse fireclay, often forming the floor of a coal seam, so called because it is used for making saggers or protective boxes in which delicate ceramic pieces are placed while being fired. Etymol: corruption of "safeguard." Also spelled: seggar. Syn: sagre
Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms

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Note added at 13 hrs (2017-11-11 12:52:23 GMT)
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Sagger, Segger, Sagre or Seggar clay, a type of fireclay.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/coalface/glossary/sterms.htm

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
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