noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blast furnace
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blast
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Traditionally, iron oxide is converted to the metal in a blast furnace .
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Engineers have told us that the blast furnaces are at risk.
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Its bank of five blast furnaces and the unusual water balance tower can still be seen.
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I haven't got a snowflake's chance in a blast furnace with Helen while he's around.
glass
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To get the high temperatures he used a kiln like a glass furnace .
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Excavations of other medieval glass furnaces have sometimes revealed a better degree of preservation.
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So far we have considered glass furnaces which have circular plans and tank glass furnaces which have rectangular plans.
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There are two potential problems that archaeologists can have when excavating putative glass furnaces .
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After 1615 James I decreed that coal should be used instead of wood as the principal fuel in glass furnaces .
■ VERB
use
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Coal from the valleys is used in furnaces and converted to electricity in four power stations in the area.
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In 1884 he achieved a higher temperature using another homemade furnace and bellows.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A furnace exploded all over him.
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But if an application is made to patent a computer-controlled furnace it may well succeed and be granted a patent.
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For that matter, where is the furnace ?
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It has a very high viscosity which requires that it be raised to about 250-F to pump and spray into the furnace .
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The whine of the furnace reaction stepped up yet again.