Blast Furnace Definition

noun
A towerlike smelting furnace for separating metal, esp. iron, from the impurities in the ore: a blast of air is forced into the furnace from below to produce the intense heat needed.
Webster's New World
As above, but specifically a forge where the fuel and the ore are intermixed.
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Noun

Singular:
blast furnace
Plural:
blast-furnaces

Blast Furnace Sentence Examples

  • In the blast-furnace all lead ores are successfully smelted.

  • It also occurs in blast-furnace gases.

  • Lead ores are smelted in the reverberatory furnace, the ore-hearth, and the blast-furnace.

  • A modern blast-furnace is oblong in horizontal section and about 24 ft.

  • A, Ladle bringing the cast iron from the blast-furnace.

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