blast furnace

English

Noun

blast furnace (plural blast furnaces)

1. (metallurgy) An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
   • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 64:

     Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.

2. (metallurgy) As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.

Meronyms

• tuyeres

Holonyms

• ironworks, steelworks

Coordinate terms

• See metallurgical furnace § Smelting furnaces

Derived terms

• blast furnace gas

 

Translations

furnace where iron ore is smelted

• Basque: labe garai
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高爐／高炉 (zh) (gāolú)

• Czech: vysoká pec (cs) f
• Danish: højovn c
• Esperanto: altforno (eo)
• Estonian: kõrgahi
• Finnish: masuuni (fi)
• French: haut fourneau (fr) m
• Georgian: ბრძმედი (brʒmedi)
• German: Hochofen (de) m
• Greek: υψικάμινος (el) f (ypsikáminos)
• Indonesian: tanur tiup
• Irish: foirnéis soinneáin f
• Italian: altoforno (it) m
• Japanese: 高炉 (ja) (こうろ, kōro), 熔鉱炉 (ja) (yōkōrō)
• Kazakh: темірлік (temırlık), домна (domna)
• Korean: 용광로(鎔鑛爐) (yonggwangno), 고로(高爐) (ko) (goro)
• Malay: relau bagas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: masovn m

  Nynorsk: masomn m

• Persian: کوره بلند (fa)
• Polish: wielki piec (pl) m
• Portuguese: alto-forno m, alto forno m
• Quechua: wayrachina
• Romanian: furnal (ro) n
• Russian: до́мна (ru) f (dómna)
• Spanish: alto horno
• Swedish: masugn (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagisdising dapugan
• Vietnamese: lò cao (vi) (爐高)

Further reading

• blast furnace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia