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electric furnace: see furnace furnace, enclosed space for the burning of fuel. There are many kinds of furnaces, the type depending upon the fuel and the use to which the heat produced within it is put. Most familiar are the furnaces used in the heating of buildings. ..... Click the link for more information. . electric furnaceChamber heated with electricity to very high temperatures, for melting and alloying metals and refractories. Modern electric furnaces generally are either arc furnaces or induction furnaces. Arc furnaces produce roughly two-fifths of the steel made in the U.S. In the induction furnace, a coil carrying alternating electric current surrounds the container or chamber of metal; circulating eddy currents induced in the metal produce extremely high temperatures. |
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| Morgan Molten Metal Systems is the world's leading manufacturer of crucibles and melt-to-mold refractories, and supplies a full line of efficient gas and electric furnaces, including its dual-energy hybrid and jumbo furnace. Iron reduced from the new RHF will be recycled in an electric furnace while zinc oxide collected from the exhaust gas will be sold to outside companies. Silicon carbide manufactured in an electric furnace by heating sand in the presence of carbon is a tough, hard material often used for making sandpaper. |
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