nonfurnace

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ furnace.

Adjective

nonfurnace (not comparable)

1. Not of or pertaining to a furnace.
   • 1989, Boris Z. Rumer, Soviet steel: the challenge of industrial modernization in the USSR:

     Considerable efforts are being made in Soviet ferrous metallurgy to expand the application of refinement of steel through nonfurnace processing — through vacuum, inert gases, and synthetic slag...