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fire-tube boiler
[ fahyuhr-toob, -tyoob ]
noun
- any boiler for generating steam by passing hot gases and other combustible products through tubes fire tubes immersed in water to a chimney or uptake.
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Thus, the internal surface of the tubes of a fire-tube boiler is the heating surface of the tubes, but the outside surface of the tubes of a water-tube boiler is the heating surface of those tubes.
From Project Gutenberg
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