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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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My house will eventually need a new roof and probably a new furnace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Once the writing was finished, Seiler, an affiliate of Berkeley SETI, rolled up the papyrus, sealed it inside a container, placed it in a high-temperature furnace, and burned it until it was thoroughly carbonized.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Making these parts requires the blade to be “grown” in a vacuum furnace as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, according to Nigel Chiang, an analyst at SemiAnalysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

He said this could have implications for other parts of the UK steel industry such as the electric steel-making furnace in Port Talbot.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

It was bewildering to find them so many miles and centuries out of Egypt, and so far from the fiery furnace.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

The company expects to build plants at the site to process the ore for use in electric arc furnaces with scrap steel to make new steel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The strategy confirmed electric arc furnaces as the future of British steelmaking, replacing traditional blast furnaces, which resulted in job losses at steelworks including Port Talbot.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Italy's government says the country's largest steel works must be converted to electric after a court-ordered shutdown of polluting furnaces but, as Rome seeks a buyer, critics say its plan is woefully unsubstantiated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

But in the meantime, the plant formerly known as Ilva has been ordered to shut off its blast furnaces by October 28 due to the presence of asbestos and illegal levels of fine airborne particles.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

And soon we will control the undersea furnaces, our ancestral home!”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

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 Henry Kendall

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 Hattie Tyng Griswold

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 Mrs. Howard Kingscote

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 Henry Kendall


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