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solar furnace

American  

noun

  1. a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.


solar furnace British  

noun

  1. a furnace utilizing the sun as a heat source, sunlight being concentrated at the focus of a system of concave mirrors

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Beaming from an almost cloudless afternoon sky , our solar furnace showed the welcome warmth still available from its direct rays in mid-October.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2022

Waste water is purified in a solar furnace and then piped back to the farm.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2012

Other topics discussed by the electrochemists in Washington: � Chemist W. M. Cohn of Berkeley, Calif, described the solar furnace invented in Germany which he uses for high-temperature work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is there a basic flaw in the current theory about the fusion process that powers the solar furnace?

From Time Magazine Archive

"Has the power crew set up the solar furnace?" he asked.

From All Day September by Dongen, H. R. van

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