| 单词 | wind-furnace |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswind-furnace wind-furnace n. a furnace in which the draught is obtained by means of a (high or narrow) chimney without the aid of bellows or other mechanical blower as in a blast furnace. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by method of operation lamp-furnace1651 wind-furnace1651 reverbatory1656 blast furnace1706 revolver1879 run-out1881 flame-furnace1888 producer1890 resistance furnace1897 induction furnace1907 suction plant1909 high-frequency induction furnace1918 solar furnace1924 roller hearth furnace1927 1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 190 Put those cakes..into a Winde Furnace. 1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets i. 132 Put them in a Wind-Furnace to Calcine. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Furnace A Wind Furnace, or Furnace for Fusions, which is so called, because the Wind comes forcibly to blow the Coals, in order to Melt or Fuse the Matter in the Crucible or Coppel. 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 11 A Wind-Furnace, for the fusion of metals. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxii. 195 The oldest method of manufacturing wrought iron was to reduce it at once from the ore by heating in a wind-furnace with charcoal or coal. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wind-furnace, a furnace in which a strong heat is obtained..by means of a powerful draft, depending on a narrow flue or chimney of considerable elevation. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 948/2 Wind Furnace (Metallurgy), one depending upon the draft of a chimney, as distinguished from a blast furnace. < as lemmas |
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