| 释义 |
red heat, red-heat
The state or condition of being red-hot; the degree of heat present when a substance is red-hot.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 161 It is so brittle it would crack in the red-heat. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 209 He dried a quantity of crystallized carbonate of soda in a red heat. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic xiii. (1883) 319 This vapour, being consumed without flame, keeps the wick at its red-heat. 1886A. Winchell Walks Geol. Field 134 They could only be separated by bringing the residue to a red-heat.
fig.1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 45/2, I awoke in about an hour with red-heat at my brain. |