furnaces

Industrial heat chambers

Furnaces is the plural of furnace, an enclosed structure for generating intense heat.

Furnaces burn fuel to heat buildings, smelt ore, or fire ceramics.

Industrial furnaces reach temperatures that melt steel.

Figuratively, any place of intense heat or trial: The summer city was a furnace, the furnace of war.

industrial

boiler

Water-heating vessel

burner · chimney · smokestack · factory · plant · steam · coal · coke · stoker · grate

metallurgy

smelting

Extracting metal from ore

  • forgesHammers metal into shape
  • ironElement twenty-six
  • oreMetal-bearing rock

copper · bronze · casting · refining · ingot · alloy · annealing · tempering · molten · crucible

biblical

fiery

Intensely hot or passionate

Nebuchadnezzar · Babylon · trial · affliction · purification · ordeal · deliverance · faith · miracle · flames

heating

HVAC

Indoor climate management

pilot light · ignition · gas · oil · electric · filter · heat exchanger · forced air · basement · vents

Categories
Opposites
thermal function

furnacesfreezers

Subzero preservation chambers

air conditioners · refrigerators · coolers · chillers · cooling systems

thermal state/environment

furnacesiceboxes

Insulated containers using frozen blocks

freezers · cold rooms · glaciers · arctic · tundra

temperature production

furnacesfreezers

Subzero preservation chambers

ice houses · cold storage · cooling towers · snow machines

Phrases
Family

furnace, furnaceman

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G