| 单词 | finery hearth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinery hearth finery hearth n. a hearth 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 1693 M. Lister in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 866 Bars..taken up out of the Finnery Harth, or second Forage, are much better Iron than those which are made in the Bloomary. 1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. vi. 191 He therein deviseth..a finery hearth and forge at Consey. 1869 T. S. Hunt in Rep. Progress 1866–1869 (Geol. Surv. Canada) (1870) 274 Karsten was of the opinion that in some regions, and with certain ores, the direct process was, perhaps, more advantageous than the use of the blast-furnace combined with the finery-hearth. 1961 Technol. & Culture 2 135 In the finery hearth a piece of cast iron from the blast furnace was melted and then subjected to an oxidizing blast to remove the carbon, silicon, and some other impurities. 2008 Econ. Hist. Rev. 61 93 Unlike the open finery hearth, the Lancashire hearth was a closed chamber with openings for working the iron and conveying a blast of air. < as lemmas |
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