blast furnace

English

Noun

blast furnace (plural blast furnaces)

a forge in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
as above, but specifically a forge where the fuel and the ore are intermixed.

Translations

furnace where iron ore is smelted

Czech: vysoká pec f
Esperanto: altforno
Estonian: kõrgahi
Finnish: masuuni (fi)
French: haut fourneau (fr) m
Georgian: ბრძმედი (brʒmedi)
German: Hochofen (de) m
Greek: υψικάμινος (el) f (ypsikáminos)
Irish: foirnéis soinneáin f
Italian: altoforno (it) m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: masovn m

Nynorsk: masomn m
Polish: wielki piec m
Portuguese: alto-forno m, alto forno m
Quechua: wayrachina
Romanian: furnal (ro) n
Russian: до́мна (ru) f (dómna)
Spanish: alto horno
Tagalog: dagisdising dapugan

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