Effects of Salt-cake in Soda-Lime Batches in Corroding Fireclay Refractory....

JSGT 1923 V07 T228-T237

It has been well known in the glass industry that salt-cake, especially when used in tank furnaces, is corrosive of the fire clay blocks with which the furnace is lined. In many instances the corrosion has been due especially to the existence of a floating layer of the saltcake, and the most severe corrosion was therefore experienced on the flux line blocks, these requiring most frequent repair.

Edith M. Firth, F. W. Hodkin & W. E. S. Turner