blast furnace
noun
: a furnace in which combustion is forced by a current of air under pressure
especially
: one for the reduction of iron ore
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Plenty more blast furnaces are in the pipeline, too.
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Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024
Lighthizer traces his idealization of manufacturing to his childhood on the shores of Lake Erie, where ferry boats helped deliver ore from Minnesota’s iron range to blast furnaces in Pennsylvania.
—Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
According to York Archaeology, the blocks were cut from slag—a stony byproduct of smelting ore in a blast furnace, which was an important component of English industry in the 1800s.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
That would be Nucor, which makes steel with electric furnaces that melt scrap and other raw materials, rather than with the massive blast furnaces used by US Steel and Cleveland Cliffs.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
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Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024
Lighthizer traces his idealization of manufacturing to his childhood on the shores of Lake Erie, where ferry boats helped deliver ore from Minnesota’s iron range to blast furnaces in Pennsylvania.
—Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
According to York Archaeology, the blocks were cut from slag—a stony byproduct of smelting ore in a blast furnace, which was an important component of English industry in the 1800s.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
That would be Nucor, which makes steel with electric furnaces that melt scrap and other raw materials, rather than with the massive blast furnaces used by US Steel and Cleveland Cliffs.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Blast furnace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blast%20furnace. Accessed 28 Jun. 2024.
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