furnace
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"Every stage is crucial," explains master cymbalsmith Hasan Seker, a burly 56-year-old who co-founded Bosphorus Cymbals in 1996 and is sweating after hauling glowing blanks into and out of the furnace.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
“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
If a furnace stops working, the molten metal will cool and solidify.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Take Canton, Ohio-based Metallus, which melts scrap in an electric furnace to make its steel bars and other specialty steel products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Pouring out of the factories like black smoke from a furnace came the thousands of Negroes who worked there.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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While saying there was no major impact yet on its blast furnaces, finance chief Axel Hamann said the company was keeping a close eye on the situation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Rock samples are first heated in the furnaces to release volatile compounds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Its area, which covers 13 states from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic region, is also home to the country’s largest concentration of steel mills with electric furnaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The new electric arc furnace was hoped to be up and running by the end of 2027, replacing the traditional blast furnaces which closed two years ago with the loss of 2,000 jobs.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
We were within sight of where the two blast furnaces and the nine open hearths had been—where the “pig iron,” a product of iron ore, was melted into steel.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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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 Hattie Tyng Griswold
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
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
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
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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