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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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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

Energy-production facilities and the site’s blast furnace were damaged, and production processes have been partially halted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

"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

It was pleasant down in the furnace room.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

Instead Rome should define "how many electric furnaces are needed, what public investments are planned and -- consequently -- what level of employment must be guaranteed following the sale".

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Specialized vacuum furnaces required to make these parts have lead times of more than two years, according to Chiang.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"We don't smell it any more, I guess that's because the blast furnaces have gone."

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

In a corner glowed two of the boxlike furnaces.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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

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

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




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