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kiln

[kil, kiln] / kɪl, kɪln /
NOUN
oven
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This high-temperature firing process works somewhat like baking clay in a kiln, causing the zirconia particles to fuse together and form a dense, hardened material.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

At a cavernous facility in Morbi, in India's western Gujarat state, a 200-metre-long propane-powered kiln that normally fires clay nonstop is silent.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

With funds from a wartime grant, a small room off the main space was outfitted with pottery wheels, work tables and a kiln, and stocked with blocks of clay, paint and other art supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

After this, the wood goes into a large kiln where it is dried in a process that can last anywhere from 10 days to six weeks.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

A misted half-moon had risen to the height of its arc by the time Tree-ear had swept the kiln entrance clear of ashes.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

We also have the Iznik kilns in Turkey, which are still operating today, and influences into Southeast Asia, and so on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026

Her sketches, which use styles employed in 18th-century architectural drawings, imagine converting vacant office space in the Financial District into fantastical giant kilns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Aghara said the previous abundance of LPG and natural gas meant that there had been few moves to fully develop and adopt electric or hydrogen-powered kilns.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

It lacked glazes, was made by hand rather than on potters’ wheels, was baked in open fires rather than in kilns, and was fired at relatively low temperatures.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Then, last spring, she attracted attention by building a second house for herself, of rosy, freshly kilned brick, abutting the compound of Roshan, the village’s most powerful man.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016

His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman."

From Time Magazine Archive

The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

It gave him a strange, off-kilter appearance, like a Parian bust that had slumped during kilning due to some internal imbalance.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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