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cinder notch

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cinder notch [′sin·dər ‚näch]
(metallurgy)
An opening in a blast furnace that allows molten slag to flow out.
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A section of one of the fire-brick, called the dam, was Duquesne blast furnaces carried to the tuyere level; it formed the back of the fore hearth, and was supported by a stone (dam stone) or cast-iron dam plate; in the dam plate was a vertical slit which was stopped with loam, and which allowed of a tapping hole being made at any convenient level, while the excess of cinder ran off through a semicircular cinder notch.
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