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kiln burner

A worker who is responsible for firing kilns to produce ceramic products.
Type of product produced is often attached to the term as, brick kiln
burner, tile burner, pipe burner, etc. Also called kiln fireman; kiln
operator; baker; kiln tender; kiln firer, etc.

kiln-burner helper

Person who assists kiln burner in firing kiln, supplying coal and wood to
fireboxes, and cleaning ashes from ashpits. DOT

kiln-car unloader

A worker who removes fired ceramic ware from kiln cars.

kiln cleaner

Person who prepares kilns for burning. DOT

kiln-dry

To dry in a kiln. Webster 3rd

kilneye

An opening for removal of lime from a vertical lime kiln.

kilnman

A worker who tends a kiln. Standard, 2

kiln placer

A worker who places clayware in kiln for drying or firing. Also called
kiln setter; sagger filler; kiln loader; kiln stacker.

kilo-

One thousand units. The kilodyne is 1,000 dyn; kilogram is 2.2046 lb
avoirdupois; kilometer is 1,093.6 yd; kilowatt is 1.341 hp.
Pryor, 3

kilocusec

A unit of volumetric rate of air flow, expressed in thousands of cubic
feet per second. BS, 8

kilocycle

One thousand cycles. Abbrev. kc. Crispin

kilometer

A length of 1,000 m; equals 3,280.8 ft or 0.621 mile. The chief unit for
long distances in the metric system. Abbrev. km. Standard, 2

kiloton

A unit for measuring the energy of a nuclear explosion. A 1-kiloton
explosion releases energy equal to that in the explosion of 1,000 st (907
t) of TNT. Abbrev. kton. Lyman

kilowatt-hour

A unit of work or energy equal to that expended in 1 h at a steady rate of
1 kW or 3.6 x 106 J. Webster 3rd

Kimberley method

See:combined top slicing and shrinkage stoping

kimberlite

A highly serpentinized porphyritic peridotite, commonly brecciated, which
occurs in vertical pipes, dikes, and sills. It is the principal original
environment of diamond, but only a small percentage of the known
kimberlite occurrences are diamondiferous. See also:blue ground;
yellow ground. The name is derived from Kimberley, South Africa.

kimzeyite

An isometric mineral, Ca3 (Zr,Ti)2 (Si,Al,Fe)3 O (sub
12) ; garnet group.

kind

Eng. Generally signifies tender, soft, or easy to work; said of certain
ores.

Kind-Chaudron process

A method of sinking a deep shaft of large diameter in which a pilot bore
of smaller diameter is first cut, after which the cut is enlarged to the
final diameter, the debris falling into the pilot bore. When water is
encountered, a lining with a moss box at the bottom is forced into place.
CF:Triger process

kindly

See:likely

kindly ground

Eng. Those rocks in which lodes become productive of mineral of value.