electric-arc furnace

British

noun

another name for arc furnace

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Several blast furnaces shut last year remain idled, and newly built electric-arc furnace mills prompted by the tariffs have been slow to ramp up production.

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Jumping at the thunder from the melt shop's electric-arc furnace as it turned scrap metal into lava.

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