furnace
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“There was this weird vent, a furnace return, and a tiny cabinet with a door above it,” said Pete Lauenstein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“We as an industry are very reliant on electricity to make steel,” said Rob Simon, chief executive of JSW Steel USA, which uses an electric furnace at its Mingo Junction, Ohio, plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
We are living through the era of the exploding rocket ships and the Cybertruck, and Twitter and Grok, the world’s most advanced money furnace.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Plans for a £1.25bn electric steel-making furnace in Port Talbot may be delayed for up to eight months due to problems with electrical connectivity, Tata Steel has warned.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Mom said a furnace was installed in our house the next year—the first for a house on our row.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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The furnaces operate at extreme temperatures, with iron ore and coking coal poured in at the top and liquid iron extracted at the bottom.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It said the blast furnaces were "no longer financially sustainable," blaming "highly challenging" market conditions, tariffs and costs associated with moving to lower-carbon production techniques.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Chasing demand means ordering specialized vacuum furnaces on two-year-plus lead times, hiring and training people and building up expensive inventories of superalloys, Chiang said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Rock samples are first heated in the furnaces to release volatile compounds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Velutha who built the aluminum sheet-lined, easy-to-clean cutting surfaces, and the ground-level furnaces for boiling fruit.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng
Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.
From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Kingscote, Mrs. Howard
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