blast furnace

Noun

Meaning

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

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blast-furnace

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Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel. Clarence Thomas

As with type IV, type V Portland cement has mainly been supplanted by the use of ordinary cement with added ground granulated blast furnace slag or tertiary blended cements containing slag and fly ash. Source: Internet

By 20, he was earning a relatively good wage doing "incredibly heavy and dangerous work" in the blast furnace. Source: Internet

Epstein Economic and Social History pp. 200–201 The blast furnace appeared around 1350 in Sweden, increasing the quantity of iron produced and improving its quality. Source: Internet

Pigott, Vincent C. (1999). p. 8. The earliest evidence of the use of a blast furnace in China dates to the 1st century AD, citation and cupola furnaces were used as early as the Warring States period (403–221 BCE). Source: Internet

Graphite Blocks are also used in parts of blast furnace linings where the high thermal conductivity of the graphite is critical. Source: Internet

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