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horizontal retort

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horizontal retort [‚här·ə′zänt·əl ′rē‚tȯrt]
(metallurgy)
An intermittent unit made from a siliceous fireclay and formerly used for zinc smelting.


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Keemiatoostuse OU Horizontal retort or Vanamoisa Oil Plant 1923-1931 Fusion retort Davidson's retort Kohtla Oil Plant 1931-1961 Tunnel oven Kohtla-Jarve Oil Shale Processing Plant 1955-1968 A/U Kivioli 1929-1975 Sillamae Oil Plant 1928-1941 Chamber retort Kohtla-Jarve Oil Shale 1947-1987 Processing Plant Solid heat carrier Kivioli Keemiatoostuse OU 1953-1981 (SHC) or Galoter 2006 .
You enter the house through a kind of horizontal retort, a narrowish pass between a brilliant pink wall and a cylinder of silky grey concrete -- the base of the same cylinder glimpsed outside, it encloses a cloakroom.
 
 
 
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