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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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... I don't want to stay," said Katherine in a choking voice, "it's because I want to go home. It's hotter out there than a blast furnace, and our one-story brick shack is like an oven, and we haven't one-tenth of the comforts that ...
— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey


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


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