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Blast furnace Moderate

Blast furnace has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air

2

forge in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air

See Also
inwall downcomer crucible dam sinter intensified slag scaffold
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
furnace
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