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Pot boiler, the Glossary

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In archaeology or anthropology, a pot boiler or cooking stone is a heated stone used to heat water - typically by people who did not have access to pottery or metal vessels.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 8 relations: Anthropology, Archaeology, Boiler, Cookware and bakeware, Fulacht fiadh, Hearth, Heat, Thermal expansion.

  2. Boilers (cookware)

Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Cookware and bakeware

Cookware and bakeware is food preparation equipment, such as cooking pots, pans, baking sheets etc.

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Fulacht fiadh

Fulacht fiadh (fulacht fiadh or fulacht fian; plural: fulachtaí fia or, in older texts, fulachta fiadh) is the name given to one of many burned mounds, dating from the Bronze Age, found in Ireland.

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Hearth

A hearth is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.

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Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.

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Thermal expansion

Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to increase in length, area, or volume, changing its size and density, in response to an increase in temperature (usually excluding phase transitions).

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See also

Boilers (cookware)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_boiler

Also known as Cooking stone.