furnace cadmiam

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furnace cadmiam - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F.
     fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to
     E. forceps.]
     1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the
        combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting
        metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as,
        an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a
        boiler furnace, etc.
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     Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when
           the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast
           furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection
           artificially of a forcible current of air; and as
           reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to
           the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon
           the materials operated upon.
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     2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial;
        severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20.
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     Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting
        quicksilver ores.
  
     Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.
        
  
     Furnace cadmiam or Furnace cadmia, the oxide of zinc
        which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting
        zinciferous ores. --Raymond.
  
     Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal,
        etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.
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