| 单词 | finery furnace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinery furnace finery furnace n. now rare a furnace in which pig iron is refined; = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron > puddling furnaces finery1539 finery hearth1693 refinery1750 finery furnace1786 puddling furnace1797 forge-fire1855 boiling-furnace1875 1786 J. Priestley Exper. & Obs. Nat. Philos. III. 356 In the finery furnace..the cast iron is exposed to a strong blast of air. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 847/2 Finery-furnace, a species of forge-hearth in which gray cast-iron is smelted by fuel and blast, and from which it is run into iron troughs for sudden congelation. 1999 CIM Bull. (Canad. Inst. Mining & Metall.) Feb. 69/3 Henry Cort..improved the ‘finery furnace’ by adjusting the amount of air to control the carbon content of the product. < as lemmas |
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