blast furnace - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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blast furnace (plural blast furnaces)
- (metallurgy) An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 64:
Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.
- (metallurgy) As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.
furnace where iron ore is smelted
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- Chinese:
- Czech: vysoká pec (cs) f
- Danish: højovn c
- Esperanto: altforno (eo)
- Estonian: kõrgahi
- Finnish: masuuni (fi)
- French: haut fourneau (fr) m
- Georgian: ბრძმედი (brʒmedi)
- German: Hochofen (de) m
- Greek: υψικάμινος (el) f (ypsikáminos)
- Indonesian: tanur tiup
- Irish: foirnéis soinneáin f
- Italian: altoforno (it) m
- Japanese: 高炉 (ja) (こうろ, kōro), 熔鉱炉 (ja) (yōkōrō)
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- Portuguese: alto-forno m, alto forno m
- Quechua: wayrachina
- Romanian: furnal (ro) n
- Russian: до́мна (ru) f (dómna)
- Spanish: alto horno
- Swedish: masugn (sv) c
- Tagalog: dagisdising dapugan
- Vietnamese: lò cao (vi) (爐高)
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