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furnace

[ US /ˈfɝnəs/ ]
[ UK /fˈɜːnɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

How To Use furnace In A Sentence

  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • Board stool was installed inside frame house , power source of furnace of water spoon, carbon, switch board, thermometer, hygroscopic wait.
  • Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
  • A second limey slag is used to remove sulphur and to deoxidise the metal in the furnace.
  • We had better fire up the furnace.
  • When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out.
  • There's a distinct whiff of anthropological research in the respectful view of men in pubs and stoking furnaces. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the time we leave, the sun is a furnace blazing magnified through the windscreen, crisping my skin.
  • The hot air flowing from furnaces in the cellar through the vents of the hypocaust went far to drive off the chill.
  • We do not "anthropomorphize" our digestion any more than we anthropomorphize furnaces with thermostats. Minding the Brain
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