(of a material) able to withstand high temperatures without fusion or decomposition
nounWord forms: plural-ries
4.
a material, such as fire clay or alumina, that is able to withstand high temperatures: used to line furnaces, kilns, etc
Derived forms
refractorily (reˈfractorily)
adverb
refractoriness (reˈfractoriness)
noun
Word origin
C17: variant of obsolete refractary
Examples of 'refractary' in a sentence
refractary
This updates the scarce bibliographic information about etanecept use in steroid-refractary acute graft-versus-host disease.
Silvia González Munguía, Moisés Pérez León, Marta Piñero González, Marina MagnoliaDíaz Pestano, Rafael Molero Gómez, Hugo Daniel Luzardo Henríquez 2015, 'Etanercept on steroid-refractary acute graft-versus-host disease', Farmacia Hospitalariahttp://www.aulamedica.es/fh/pdf/8000.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)