furnace : Idioms & Phrases

• a furnace which depends on a natural draft and not on blast.

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Al"mond fur`nace

Etymology

Prob. a corruption of Almain furnace, i. e., German furnace. See Almain.

Definitions

1. A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

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Ash"-fur`nace, Ash"-ov`en noun (Also<

• Ash-furnace
• Ash-oven

)

Definitions

1. A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

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• noun a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air
  

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• a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure.

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• a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores.

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• (Metal.), a kind of furnace for producing wrought iron directly from the ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

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• (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

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• noun any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
  

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• noun an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel
  electric-arc furnace.
  

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• . Same as Flattening oven, under Flatten.

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• a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.

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• the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond.

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• Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.

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• (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.

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• noun lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
  refractory.
  

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• noun a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building
  

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• noun a furnace that burns gas
  

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• a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

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• a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a reverberatory; a bloomery.

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• noun a furnace that burns oil
  oil burner.
  

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• (Metal.), a blast furnace having a forehearth.

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• noun a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it
  

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• a reverberatory furnace; esp., a kind of reverberatory furnace in which the fuel is gas, used in manufacturing steel.

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Per"not fur"nace

Etymology

So called from Charles Pernot, its inventor.

Definitions

1. A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

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• a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.

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• (Metal.), a furnace for reducing ores.

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• (Metal.), a furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.

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• noun a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace
  

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• . See the Note under Furnace.

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• (Metal.), a furnace, in the form of a chimney, which is charged at the top and tapped at the bottom.

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• (Metal.), a furnace, or hearth, for extracting lead from slags or poor ore.

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• (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

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• noun a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun; can produce high temperatures
  solar collector; solar dish.
  

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• noun an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel
  electric-arc furnace.
  

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• noun furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained
  

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• . See the Note under Furnace.

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