blast furnace
An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified…An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
Meaning
2 sensesAn industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks
Meronym: tuyeres
a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air
An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.
Hochofen
до́мнаdómna
Translations
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Forms
plural: blast furnaces| Singular | blast furnace |
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