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English
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The Demise of the Deseret Iron Company : Failure of the Brick Furnace Lining Technology
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 1988
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56
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23-35
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The demise of the Deseret Iron Company at Cedar City which operated in the 1850s can be attributed to at least a dozen reasons. This essay focuses on the failure of the materials used in construction of the lining of the blast furnaces. Samples of the blast furnace bricks were collected and analyzed.