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Examples of steam boiler in a Sentence
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Five minutes later, and roughly a quarter mile from the search grid, a huge steam boiler showed up on screen.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2024
The systems work in tandem with heat pumps, and because it’s all run by electricity, are far greener than steam boilers that operate by burning natural gas, oil or propane.
—Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Nearly 70% of New York City’s large buildings have steam boilers that run on natural gas or oil, according to NYC Accelerator.
—Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 15 May 2023
Vicinity is already retrofitting its Kendall plant, which uses natural gas to fire its steam boilers and an electricity-generating turbine that also produces steam from its excess thermal energy.
—Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
Job description: Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.
—Stacker.com, al, 20 Feb. 2022
The distilling process is powered by an electric steam boiler.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
Every winter, the old-fashioned steam boiler in the basement stops working — on what feels like the coldest days of the year.
—Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
Fry, also an associate professor in chemical engineering at BYU, is working in an adjacent building on a next-generation system that uses supercritical carbon-dioxide instead of a conventional steam boiler.
—Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1805, in the meaning defined above
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“Steam boiler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steam%20boiler. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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