kiln
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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
Ongoing electrical outages that keep the kiln from operating, among other issues, makes the work challenging, said Svitlana Silina, a 73-year-old retired forestry engineer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
The house is wrapped in clinker brick, a term for when clay bricks are set too close to the flames when being fired in a kiln, giving them distorted shapes and colors.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
The handprint found underneath was probably made when someone, perhaps the potter, moved the house out of the workshop to dry before firing in a kiln, according to the researchers.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
One firm, Merchant & Co., which had supplied the iron for his kiln and vault, had gone so far as to secure a writ of replevin to take the iron back.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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