kiln
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Herman enjoys the capriciousness of the kiln, never knowing quite what will emerge from it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
This high-temperature firing process works somewhat like baking clay in a kiln, causing the zirconia particles to fuse together and form a dense, hardened material.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
At Wienerberger's factory in Broomfleet, East Yorkshire, construction is under way on what the company describes as "the world's first fully electric tunnel kiln" for clay roof tiles.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
She pressed down on the handle to compress the chamber, which pumped air into the kiln.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Their roller kilns - which transport materials through every production phase inside industrial ovens - are powered by electric motors.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
We also have the Iznik kilns in Turkey, which are still operating today, and influences into Southeast Asia, and so on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
Her sketches, which use styles employed in 18th-century architectural drawings, imagine converting vacant office space in the Financial District into fantastical giant kilns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
First she described the claybeds, making sure she got in everything she could remember, the wide ocher-colored washing pits, the dragline, the kilns like great brick beehives.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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Then, last spring, she attracted attention by building a second house for herself, of rosy, freshly kilned brick, abutting the compound of Roshan, the village’s most powerful man.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016
His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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It gave him a strange, off-kilter appearance, like a Parian bust that had slumped during kilning due to some internal imbalance.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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