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• Furnace — For other uses, see Furnace (disambiguation). Industrial Furnace from 1907 A furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. In American English and Canadian English, the term furnace on its own is generally used… …   Wikipedia

• furnace — UK [ˈfɜː(r)nɪs] / US [ˈfɜrnɪs] noun [countable] Word forms furnace : singular furnace plural furnaces a large enclosed container in which you burn fuel, used for heating a building or for an industrial process such as making metal liquid See:… …   English dictionary

• furnace — Hydrocarbon Hy dro*car bon, n. [Hydro , 2 + carbon.] (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. [1913 Webster] {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• furnace — fur|nace [ fɜrnıs ] noun count a large enclosed container in which you burn fuel, used for heating a building or for an industrial process such as making metal liquid => BLAST FURNACE like a furnace SPOKEN very hot …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• furnace black — noun or furnace combustion black : a carbon black made by the partial combustion of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons (as petroleum distillates or refinery residues, natural gas, or a mixture of gas and oil) in a closed furnace or retort …   Useful english dictionary

• furnace — fur|nace [ˈfə:nıs US ˈfə:r ] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: fornaise, from Latin fornax] 1.) a large container for a very hot fire, used to produce power, heat, or liquid metal 2.) a piece of equipment used to heat a building …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Electric arc furnace — An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 …   Wikipedia

• blast furnace — a large vertical furnace for smelting iron from ore, using coke as fuel: designed so as to direct a continuous blast of air through the fuel in order to obtain a high rate of combustion. [1700 10] * * * Vertical shaft furnace that produces liquid …   Universalium

• Blast furnace — A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, generally iron. In a blast furnace, fuel and ore are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air (sometimes with oxygen enrichment) is… …   Wikipedia

• Rotating furnace — A rotating furnace is a device used to create lenses or primary mirrors for optical telescopes. It was observed that the centrifugal force induced shape of a spinning liquid is approximately the same as the shape of a telescope s primary focusing …   Wikipedia

• Condensing Furnace —   A type of heating appliance that extracts so much of the available heat content from a combusted fuel that the moisture in the combustion gases condenses before it leaves the furnace. Also this furnace circulates a liquid to cool the furnace s… …   Energy terms