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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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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

Dr Deoras said: "This is not just a heatwave, it is a heat-dome driven furnace that will grip most of the southern UK and push temperatures into truly exceptional territory."

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Instead of working with a massive furnace, participants use small torches, making the process feel more approachable and easier to control.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

When the telephone went off, so did the electricity, and the furnace wouldn’t run without electricity.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Scunthorpe's skyline has four blast furnaces, all named after English Queens - Bess, Mary, Anne and Victoria.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Rock samples are first heated in the furnaces to release volatile compounds.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Last month, the government announced British Steel would be nationalised after it took control of the business on 12 April 2025 to prevent the last two remaining blast furnaces from closing.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

The liquid rushed down a wooden gutter directly into the boiling house, a building of massive furnaces and cauldrons, where the syrup was heated and strained and turned into crystals.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

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

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

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




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