kiln
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Investing in an electric kiln means the firm is "strengthening the long-term viability of UK brick and roof tile manufacturing", says Renard.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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
Conch and Huawei have developed AI tools for more precisely predicting clinker strength, as well as for controlling energy use at the kiln where it is made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
I became addicted to the feel of clay, the triumph-failure cycle of the wheel, the loop-de-loop of joy and horror when pieces finally emerged from the kiln.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
His task was the same as the previous day’s—to fill the cart with wood, and this time unload it at the kiln site.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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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
Keeping the kilns hot means plants operate around-the-clock -- and emergency shutdowns can damage machinery.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
Its lab, with a row of bikes parked inside the front door, hums quietly with workers in protective gear moving between beakers, kilns and mineral samples being tested for durability and composition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
None of the kilns had been fired up yet, and most of the forge fires were still banked and sullen.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
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The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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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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