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noun
a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
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Words nearby solar furnace
solar day, solar eclipse, solar-electric propulsion, solar energy, solar flare, solar furnace, solar-heat, solar heating, solar house, solarimeter, solarism
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How to use solar furnace in a sentence
If submitted to the heat of this appalling solar furnace, an iron poker, for instance, would vanish into invisible vapor.
The solar furnace was a rough parabola of mirrors used to focus the sun's heat on anything that it was desirable to heat.
All Day September|Roger KuykendallOut of this solar furnace drifted a fleet of canoes black as charred logs against the cardinal blaze.
The Law of the North (Originally published as Empery)|Samuel Alexander WhiteHe used the solar furnace that had made the silicone wool to smelt it.
Sand Doom|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
British Dictionary definitions for solar furnace
solar furnace
noun
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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