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What is a blast furnace?

What is a blast furnace? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a forge in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
  2. as above, but specifically a forge where the fuel and the ore are intermixed.
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Within the past decade considerable interest has developed in the use of magnesium for desulphurizing blast furnace iron.
Their plans feature conservation of the archaeological remains such as the blast furnace complex.
It was extremely hot, like standing in front of a blast furnace at a steel works.
Its first blast furnace was built in 1953, to complement other Lanarkshire steelworks.
The charging platform was at a height of 30 meters, and the blast furnace men filled furnaces from there, and controlled the haulage system.
Tonnes of earth, generated by landscaping elsewhere on site, were also poured over the Victorian blast furnace structures and other remains.

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