reverberatory
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characterized or produced by reverberation.
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noting a furnace, kiln, or the like in which the fuel is not in direct contact with the ore, metal, etc., to be heated, but furnishes a flame that plays over the material, especially by being deflected downward from the roof.
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deflected, as flame.
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reverberatories
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Origin of reverberatory
First recorded in 1595–1605; reverberate + -ory 1
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The bicarbonate was placed in a reverberatory furnace, where the heat drove off the water and one equivalent of carbonic acid, leaving the alkali as monocarbonate.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
The red hot stones in Gaul were probably as much figments of imagination as was the assumption of one commentator that they were a reverberatory furnace.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Metallurgical furnaces of the first class are termed crucible, muffle or retort furnaces, and of the second shaft and reverberatory furnaces.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The first apparatus, a reverberatory furnace burning wood, was found to be entirely insufficient, and was replaced by a chamber of combustion filled with incandescent gas, much more elaborate in construction.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
During the first stage of the process this iron is melted down to a fluid bath in the bottom of a reverberatory furnace.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
Now both these and the egg-shaped reverberatories are being abandoned for furnaces as long as 43 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
In Butte, Montana, reverberatories have in the past been preferred to cupola furnaces, as the charge has consisted mainly of fine roasted concentrates; but the cupola is gaining ground there.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Richard Pearce’s reverberatories in 1878 had an area of hearth of 15 ft. by 9 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Our talk was of cyanide processes, reverberatories, pennyweights, water-jackets.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen
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