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electric furnace

noun

  1. a furnace in which the heat required is produced through electricity.


electric furnace

noun

  1. any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of electric furnace1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

At a silicon factory in China’s northwestern desert, Uyghur workers operate electric furnaces that reach more than 2,000 degrees.

To-day in the electric furnace one may see tons of incandescent steel swirling about like boiling milk in a saucepan.

A traveling crane slowly hoisted the massive iron lid of the electric furnace.

He was reducing refractory metallic oxides in an electric furnace made of lime.

A few words of explanation of the electric furnace will show why.

With the development of the modern electric furnace the possibility of calcium carbide as a commercial product became known.

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