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reverberatory furnace
reverberatory furnace
noun
- a metallurgical furnace having a curved roof that deflects heat onto the charge so that the fuel is not in direct contact with the ore
Example Sentences
This may be effected in crucibles, or, still better, in reverberatory furnaces, where a large quantity may be melted more conveniently.
The red hot stones in Gaul were probably as much figments of imagination as was the assumption of one commentator that they were a reverberatory furnace.
The calcination, or roasting, is conducted at a low temperature in some form of reverberatory furnace.
By the continued oxidation of litharge in reverberatory furnaces, red lead is produced as a brilliant red pigment with a specific gravity of 8.7.
According to the purposes to which they are applied, reverberatory furnaces may be classed into two groups, namely, fusion or melting furnaces, and calcining or wasting furnaces, also called calciners.
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