reverberatory

[ ri-vur-ber-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. characterized or produced by reverberation.
2. noting a furnace, kiln, or the like in which the fuel is not in direct contact with the ore, metal, etc., to be heated, but furnishes a flame that plays over the material, especially by being deflected downward from the roof.
3. deflected, as flame.

noun

, plural re·ver·ber·a·to·ries.

1. any device, as a furnace, embodying reverberation.

reverberatory

/ rɪˈvɜːbərətərɪ; -trɪ /

adjective

1. characterized by, utilizing, or produced by reverberation

noun

1. short for reverberatory furnace

Other Words From

• semi·re·verber·a·tory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of reverberatory¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; reverberate + -ory ¹

Example Sentences

The word is also applied to the fire and cooking apparatus on board ship; the floor of a smith’s forge; the floor of a reverberatory furnace on which the ore is exposed to the flame; the lower part of a blast furnace through which the metal goes down into the crucible; in soldering, a portable brazier or chafing dish, and an iron box sunk in the middle of a flat iron plate or table.

From Project Gutenberg

Wrought or Malleable Iron.—This is nearly pure iron, and is made from cast iron by the puddling process, which consists chiefly of raising the cast iron to a high temperature in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of air, which unites with the carbon and passes off as gas.

From Project Gutenberg

This may be effected in crucibles, or, still better, in reverberatory furnaces, where a large quantity may be melted more conveniently.

From Project Gutenberg

Another and a much better method is to heat together the silica in the form of sand with alkali, either potash or soda, in a reverberatory furnace, and as the glass becomes formed, to rake it out into water, and then gradually to dissolve it by boiling in suitable vessels.

From Project Gutenberg

Here the sulphate, if it existed in the alkali, is decomposed by the silicic acid, and the sulphuric acid passes off through the flues of the reverberatory furnace.

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