- Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
bloomery is a type of
metallurgical furnace once used
widely for
smelting iron from its oxides. The
bloomery was the...
- An open-hearth
furnace or open
hearth furnace is any of
several kinds of
industrial furnace in
which excess carbon and
other impurities are
burnt out of...
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bloomery furnaces in
Catalonia and the US. The
presence of a
trompe is a
signature attribute of a
Catalan forge, a type of
bloomery furnace.
Trompes can...
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through the
intermediary of
smelting as in a
blast furnace—and then
shingling the
resulting m****é. The
Catalan forge employs hydraulic power to
operate a hammer...
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China in the
tenth century, prin****lly in
Spain in the form of the
Catalan furnace,
which soon
extended to
produce reasonably high
quality steel in significant...
- this reaction.
Processes that
historically competed with
blast furnaces, such as the
Catalan forge, have been ****imilated into this reaction. But modern...
- 42°30′N 1°58′E / 42.500°N 1.967°E / 42.500; 1.967
French Cerdagne (
Catalan: Alta Cerdanya, IPA: [ˈaltə səɾˈðaɲə]) is the
northern half of Cerdanya...
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introduce the
Indians to the Iron Age. The
blacksmith used the Mission's
Catalan furnaces (California's first) to
smelt and
fashion iron into
everything from...
- century, the
Catalan forge was
already a
largely obsolete smelting technology—the hot-blast
furnace had been
invented in 1828—but a
Catalan forge was relatively...
- Europe, by the
blast furnace,
which simultaneously reduces and
melts iron.
Elaborate low
furnaces, such as the
tatara or the
Catalan forge,
survived until...
