almond-furnace
See also: almond furnace
English
editEtymology
editProbably from Almain + furnace.
Noun
editalmond-furnace (plural almond-furnaces)
- (metallurgy) A furnace in which slags of litharge left in refining silver are reduced to lead by being heated with charcoal.
References
edit- “almond-furnace”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.