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Blast furnace   /blæst fˈərnəs/   Listen
Blast furnace

noun
1.
A furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air.





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"Blast furnace" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'Blast Furnace Memorandum Book' of Abraham Darby, which we have examined, that the make of iron at the Coalbrookdale foundry, in 1713, varied from five to ten tons a week. The principal articles cast were pots, kettles, ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
... of massive apartment buildings. His lungs felt like a blast furnace and his left side seemed to be sewed together with red-hot wire. There was no help for ...
— Forever • Robert Sheckley


Words linked to "Blast furnace" :   steel factory, steel mill, steel plant, furnace, steelworks


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