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Definition of Catalan furnace

Catalan furnace
Catalan Cat"a*lan, a. Of or pertaining to Catalonia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia. Catalan furnace, Catalan forge (Metal.), a kind of furnace for producing wrought iron directly from the ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

Meaning of Catalan furnace from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- this reaction. Processes that historically competed with blast furnaces, such as the Catalan forge, have been ****imilated into this reaction. But modern...
- 42°26′48″N 1°57′10″E / 42.44667°N 1.95278°E / 42.44667; 1.95278 Cerdanya (Catalan pronunciation: [səɾˈðaɲə] ; Spanish: Cerdaña, Spanish: [θeɾˈðaɲa] ; French:...
- metals and their alloys can be cold-worked or melted in relatively simple furnaces (such as the kilns used for pottery) and cast into molds, smelted iron...