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blast furnaces

blast furnaces is the plural of blast furnace.

Meaning of blast furnace

Noun

blast furnace (plural blast furnaces)

  1. An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
    • Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks
    1. As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.

Questions about blast furnaces

What is blast furnaces the plural of?
Blast furnaces is the plural of blast furnace.

Words near blast furnaces in the dictionary

  1. blast cells
  2. blast chilling
  3. blast from the past
  4. blast furnace
  5. blast furnace gas
  6. blast furnaces
  7. blast gear
  8. blast lamp
  9. blast lamps
  10. blast off
  11. blast out

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