tank furnace
- noun
- Specialized
:
horno de tanque
- At the manufacturing plant, workers monitored the temperature of the tank furnace carefully to ensure quality.
Examples
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The glass was melted in the tank furnace, allowing for the creation of intricate designs.
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After hours of operation, the tank furnace produced enough molten glass for the day's production needs.
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But how to cut the glass, how to make the fire pulse through her tank furnace?
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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4.1
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 with several pots for melting glass
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally built from 'tank' (a vessel for liquids) and 'furnace' (an enclosed heating device), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a kind of furnace that holds or processes molten material. However, the detailed, technical sense specific to glass-production (measured feed at one end and drawing molten glass from the other) is specialized and not predictable solely from the constituents, so full understanding requires domain knowledge.
Etymology
Tank furnace is named from a simple picture: a long heated tank of liquid glass inside a furnace, where raw materials go in at one end and the melted glass is pulled out at the other. So the name means a furnace that melts and supplies glass in a 'continuous' way.