hot-short

[ hot-shawrt ]

adjective

1. (of steel or wrought iron) brittle when heated, usually due to high sulfur content.

Other Words From

• hot-shortness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hot-short¹

1790–1800; hot + short, as in red-short

Example Sentences

Mushet goes on to show, however, that the steel thus produced by Bessemer was not commercially valuable because the sulphur and phosphorous remained, and the dispersion of oxide of iron through the mass "imported to it the inveterate hot-short quality which no subsequent operation could expel."

From Project Gutenberg

"Sideros" concludes that Bessemer's discovery was "at least for a time" now shelved and arrested in its progress; and it had been left "to an individual of the name of Mushet" to show that if "fluid metallic manganese" were combined with the fluid Bessemer iron, the portion of manganese thus alloyed would unite with the oxygen of the oxide and pass off as slag, removing the hot-short quality of the iron.

From Project Gutenberg