regenerative furnace
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.
Example Sentences
- "These are modifications of the Siemens regenerative furnace, but differ from it in having the gas generator directly alongside of the melting chamber instead of at a distance. The coal is burned on the ordinary step-grate to carbon-monoxide gas which passes while still hot directly to the combustion area."