pot furnace
- noun
- Specialized
:
horno de fusión
- The pot furnace was essential for the glass-making process.
Examples
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Improvements to the pot furnace have made the glass-melting process more efficient.
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Each pot furnace in the workshop can hold several different colors of molten glass.
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The old glass factory still uses a traditional pot furnace to produce its handmade vases.
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Many glass manufacturers use a pot furnace to melt raw materials.
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The glassmaker placed several pots in the pot furnace to melt raw materials for the new sculpture.
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In the workshop, the artist used the pot furnace to achieve the right temperature for melting the colored glass.
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To create beautiful glass pieces, the artisans carefully monitored the temperature inside the pot furnace.
Synonyms
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A closed chamber that makes very high heat for melting metal, burning waste or heating buildings
A large hot oven that melts glass for making bottles and windows
A large oven that melts raw materials so liquid glass comes out the other end
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Morphology
The compound combines 'pot' (a round vessel) and 'furnace' (an enclosed heating device), so the meaning — a furnace characterized by or containing pots used for melting glass — is directly derivable from the constituents. This noun+noun compounding is a regular, compositional pattern in English (though domain-specific), so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pot furnace comes from the simple image of a furnace that holds several heavy pots of 'hot, melted glass' which makers heat in different colors. So, it means a furnace with many pots used for 'glass-making'.