单词 | blast-furnace |
释义 | ˈblast-ˈfurnace A furnace in which a blast of air is used; spec. the common furnace for iron-smelting, into which a blast of compressed and highly heated air is driven by a blowing-engine. Also attrib.
1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4241/2 A new Invention of Smelting..of Black Tin-Ore into White Tin..in a Blast Furnace. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 94 The wind-furnace may generally be replaced with advantage by the blast-furnace. 1860W. Fordyce Hist. Coal, etc. 116 The blast furnace consists of two truncated cones, united at their bases. 1877Practical Mag. VII. 248 (title) The utilization of blast furnace slag. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 601/2 (heading) Blast-furnace gases. 1906Westm. Gaz. 19 July 8/2 The blast-furnacemen at Workington. 1930Engineering 17 Jan. 68/1 Mortar, with the exception of blast-furnace cement, ceased to change in strength. |

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