blast furnace

blast furnace

English

Noun

blast furnace (plural blast furnaces)

1. (metallurgy) forge in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
   • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 64:

     Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.

2. (metallurgy) as above, but specifically a forge where the fuel and the ore are intermixed.

Translations

furnace where iron ore is smelted

Basque: labe garai Chinese: Mandarin: 高爐／高炉 (zh) (gāolú) Czech: vysoká pec f Esperanto: altforno (eo) Estonian: kõrgahi Finnish: masuuni (fi) French: haut fourneau (fr) m Georgian: ბრძმედი (brʒmedi) German: Hochofen (de) m Greek: υψικάμινος (el) f (ypsikáminos) Indonesian: tanur tiup Irish: foirnéis soinneáin f Italian: altoforno (it) m Japanese: 高炉 (こうろ, kōro) Kazakh: темірлік (temırlık), домна (domna) Korean: 용광로(鎔鑛爐) (yonggwangno), 고로(高爐) (ko) (goro) Norwegian: Bokmål: masovn m Nynorsk: masomn m Persian: کوره بلند‎ (fa) Polish: wielki piec (pl) m Portuguese: alto-forno m, alto forno m Quechua: wayrachina Romanian: furnal (ro) n Russian: до́мна (ru) f (dómna) Spanish: alto horno Swedish: masugn (sv) c Tagalog: dagisdising dapugan Vietnamese: lò cao (vi) (爐高)

Further reading

• blast furnace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia