solar furnace
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Is there a basic flaw in the current theory about the fusion process that powers the solar furnace?
From Time Magazine Archive
Zwicky would also produce carbon dioxide by focusing the rays of a solar furnace on rocks containing calcium carbonate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose that an army of stokers, arrayed in numbers which we need not now pause to calculate, were employed to throw this coal into the great solar furnace.
From McClure's Magazine December, 1895 by Tarbell, Ida M.
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