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(chemistry) A small, coarse stone added to boiling liquids to make them boil more evenly, without sudden, violent releases of vapour; used especially in vacuum distillation
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(metalworking) A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
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A large industrial retort vessel used to make steel by the Bessemer process.
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A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.
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The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
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The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.
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Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
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A kiln in which bricks are baked.
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(transitive) To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.
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A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
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(pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
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The rotating glass plate in a microwave oven.
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Slag from a metal furnace.
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(chemistry) An item of laboratory equipment which consists of a metal pole with a solid, firm base, used to hold, or clamp, laboratory glassware and other equipment in place, so that they do not fall down or come apart.
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Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
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Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
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One who uses a cupel in assaying.
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An early (and dangerous) form of tanning bed.
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The placing of pottery in a saggar so that it can be dried by fire.
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Sand used to line a furnace.
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(ceramics) Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.
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(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
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A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
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A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
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(automotive) A lubricant for use on the fork of a motorcycle.
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(metallurgy) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
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(dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
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A kiln for firing lead glaze.
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Ceramics fired using this technique
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A ceramic crucible used in alchemy and early metallurgy.
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(mining) Any very hard rock.
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(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
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A mixture of fine iron particles, unreacted iron oxide (ore), slag and charcoal residue.
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A mountainous area of northeast Minnesota noted for iron production.
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An iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.
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A man employed to operate a kiln.
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A process for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace.
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(chemistry) An enclosed workspace with a hood for preventing particulate contamination.
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A long, slender brick used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln.
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A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass.
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Alternative form of limekiln [A furnace used to produce lime from limestone.]
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Alternative form of limekiln [A furnace used to produce lime from limestone.]
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A furnace used to produce lime from limestone.
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A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc.
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slag from a puddling furnace
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A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces inside can be judged.
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(glassmaking) Blown by an individual using the mouth, rather than bellows or blowpipe.
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A small electric furnace or kiln, loaded from the front.
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(glassmaking) A small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process.
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The application of oil to the body in order to soothe and/or prevent drying.
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Alternative form of oil-canning [(roofing) A moderate deformation or buckling of sheet material, particularly common with flat sheet metal surfaces.]
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rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
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A form of furnace in which an ore is reduced to a metal
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A furnace for roasting ore.
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The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
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The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
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(metalworking) A sample taken for assay from a molten metallic mass by pouring a portion into water to granulate it.
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A mass formed by sintering.
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dermal adhesive; a glue used to close wounds in the skin, as an alternative to sutures etc.
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Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
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A smooth stone used for polishing.
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A kind of small coal much used by smiths.
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A very strong and instant glue, generally cyanoacrylate.
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Alternative form of surturbrand [A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.]
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The slag from a puddling furnace.
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The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
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The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven in glassmaking.
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(ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
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A liquid used to lubricate valves in brass instruments.
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The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
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Obsolete form of iron. [(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.]
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