blast furnace

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noun

a large vertical furnace for smelting iron from ore, using coke as fuel: designed so as to direct a continuous blast of air through the fuel in order to obtain a high rate of combustion.

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Origin of blast furnace

First recorded in 1700–10

Words nearby blast furnace

blasphemy, blast, blast cell, blasted, blastema, blast furnace, blast-furnace cement, -blastic, blasting, blasting gelatin, blasting powder

How to use blast furnace in a sentence

Here, in a dilapidated room, Saleem recounts the November blast.
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The blast was so strong,” he said, “we thought the world was ending.
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Now that he was Sir Alfred, there was one final blast of publicity.
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Witnesses said the girls were in their late teens and had been accompanied by a man who left soon after the blast.
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He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
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But the withering mildew was now breathed forth, that was intended to blast this goodly harvest.
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The sentinel was singing a sequedilla above; and its notes came to them with the wailing blast.
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Such a furnace worked there for many years, until copper smelting was removed from Cornwall to Wales.
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It is therefore uncertain from these statements which furnace consumes the greater quantity of air.
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British Dictionary definitions for blast furnace

blast furnace

noun

a vertical cylindrical furnace for smelting iron, copper, lead, and tin ores. The ore, scrap, solid fuel, and slag-forming materials are fed through the top and a blast of preheated air is forced through the charge from the bottom. Metal and slag are run off from the base

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