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heating surfaces

heating surfaces is the plural of heating surface.

Meaning of heating surface

Noun

heating surface (plural heating surfaces)

  1. In a steam boiler, the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, especially of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces.
    • [...] combined heating surface is 6,151 sq. ft. (tubes, 530 sq. ft., flues, 3,275 sq. ft., firebox, with arches and thermic syphons, 415 sq. ft., and superheater 1,931 sq. ft.); [...].1941 January, “Recent North American Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 27
    Synonyms:
    fire surface

Questions about heating surfaces

What is heating surfaces the plural of?
Heating surfaces is the plural of heating surface.

Words near heating surfaces in the dictionary

  1. heating mantle
  2. heating oil
  3. heating oils
  4. heating pad
  5. heating surface
  6. heating surfaces
  7. heating through
  8. heating up
  9. heatingly
  10. heatings
  11. heatlabile

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