tank furnace

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   furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained

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Questions about tank furnace

What does tank furnace mean?

tank furnace means "furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained".

Is tank furnace a common word?

tank furnace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.