If someone did try to destroy us we'd detect it on radar before we were hit and could send a blast straight back. |
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I have spent it the last several years in my jammies with my dog, both of us eating potato chips and chip dip and having a blast. |
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One friend in the Humvee was already dead from the blast of the jerry-built 90 mm mortar round, and one would die later. |
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Beth enters the kitchen, feeling the blast of warmth from the oven as Clark Durand pulls out a platter of warmed-up Chinese takeout. |
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A 37 year old man presented to the emergency department with a blast injury, sustained as a result of inflating a radial tyre which exploded. |
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There are blog sites and there are blog sites, but for us it seems that the Blast stopped the Comments cold. |
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Blast furnaces are used to recycle slag, dross, and residues from other processes. |
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Dixon turned on the air conditioner and radio, both full blast, to drown out the thumping. |
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Blast II is a cluster of elongated diamond shapes in two colors of painted softwood that fan out irregularly from a point on the wall. |
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Jet Blast Deflectors will be fitted on each runway 160m back from the bow ski jump and probably in line with the rear wall of the first island. |
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Witnesses said the girls were in their late teens and had been accompanied by a man who left soon after the blast. |
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The blast wave they generate is significantly longer in duration and sometimes more powerful than that of conventional explosives. |
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You'll probably run into a few gotchas while figuring it out, despite the help files on the Blast page. |
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Blast off into uncharted alien territory on the trail of a deadly secret, threatening peace on Terra. |
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The band has not only blazed a trail for free-media artists, but they also had a blast in the process. |
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He was killed instantly by a blast in an ambush launched on our vehicles outside of a schoolhouse. |
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There were no closed-circuit television cameras operating in the area near the blast. |
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Most of the 40 homes destroyed by the blast no longer exist, says brunet, so finding remains is next to impossible. |
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I was, to use the vernacular, bleedin' morto. My shame notwithstanding, the whole day was a blast. |
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The pistons and valves on the earliest locomotives were lubricated by the enginemen dropping a lump of tallow down the blast pipe. |
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In the summer of 1558, Knox published his best known pamphlet, The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women. |
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The sole industrial centre in Belgium outside the collieries and blast furnaces of Wallonia was the historic cloth making town of Ghent. |
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He also developed a blowing device for blast furnaces that allowed higher temperatures, increasing their efficiency. |
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Isaac was then the potfounder at the blast furnace there, one of the first to use coke instead of charcoal, which was pioneered by Abraham Darby. |
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At its peak, it included a number of blast furnaces, a brick works, potteries, glass works, and rolling mills. |
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In 1757 Wilkinson patented a hydraulic powered blowing engine for blast furnaces. |
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At its peak in 1845, the works operated 18 blast furnaces, employed 7,300 people and produced 88,400 tons of iron each year. |
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In 1863, the Company had receovered from a business slump, but had no cash to invest for a new blast furnace, despite having made a profit. |
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By 1819, the ironworks had grown to six blast furnaces, producing 23,000 tons of iron. |
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Portions of the enormous complex that formed the Cyfarthfa works remain intact today, including six of the original blast furnaces. |
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The Cleveland Animal Shelter is on blast this week as hundreds of community members push for changes in the way it operates. |
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Jim Murphy is on blast... for being dismissive of the England football team. |
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Given the higher temperature of brine, the system efficiency over air blast freezing can be higher. |
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Frequently, the blast is powerful enough to significantly damage a building but leave it standing. |
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This was a consequence of the platform design, which did not include blast walls. |
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Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace. |
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It was freezing in the tiled cubicle and her bare nipples reacted predictably to the blast of cool air. |
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That is the resurrection angel, his lips still aquiver and his cheek aflush with the blast that shattered the cemeteries and woke the dead. |
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In the process, he managed to make the Republican tax cut sound like a blast from the past. |
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Attempts to fuse and defluorinate rock phosphate by feeding the finely ground material into the flame of a blast lamp were not successful. |
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Hot blast also raised the operating temperature of furnaces, increasing their capacity. |
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In this, a blast furnace was used to make pig iron, which then had to undergo a further process to make forgeable bar iron. |
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More recent furnaces have been designed based upon bath smelting, top jetting lance smelting, flash smelting and blast furnaces. |
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By 1857 a blast furnace had opened close to the Durham coalfield on the north side of the Tees. |
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The blast furnace appeared around 1350 in Sweden, increasing the quantity of iron produced and improving its quality. |
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Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city. |
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No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but the police investigated suspicions that the IRA was behind it. |
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Bathory inspired the Viking metal and folk metal movements and Immortal brought blast beats to the fore. |
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He suggests that early blast furnace and cast iron production evolved from furnaces used to melt bronze. |
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Many of these streams provided the power for the watermills, blast furnaces and hammers of the iron industry and the cloth mills. |
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There were also some 200 empty petrol tins for measuring the blast, a technique that Penney had employed on Operation Crossroads. |
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The daily flights of the helicopters rattle the ancient walls and the winds created by their rotors blast sand against the fragile bricks. |
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Runway lighting and signage may need changes to provide clearance to the wings and avoid blast damage from the engines. |
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When the operation is over, the blast is shut off and the prop under the bottom door is knocked down so that the bottom plates swing open. |
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Darby leased the furnace in September 1708, and set to work preparing to get it into blast. |
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This shows the production of 'charked' coal in January 1709 and the furnace was brought into blast on 10 January. |
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The furnace was used for the first time on 10 January 1709 and the blast appears to have been successful. |
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According to this broad definition, bloomeries for iron, blowing houses for tin, and smelt mills for lead would be classified as blast furnaces. |
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This pumping of airstream in with bellows is known as cold blast, and it increases the fuel efficiency of the bloomery and improves yield. |
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These early blast furnaces, like the Chinese examples, were very inefficient compared to those used today. |
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The technology required for blast furnaces may have either been transferred from China, or may have been an indigenous innovation. |
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High quality ores, water power for bellows for blast and wood for charcoal are readily obtainable in Sweden. |
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Already the Vikings are known to have used double bellows, which greatly increases the volumetric flow of the blast. |
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This may have included the blast furnace, as the Cistercians are known to have been skilled metallurgists. |
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Nevertheless, the means by which the blast furnace spread in medieval Europe has not finally been determined. |
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The Backbarrow blast furnace built in Cumbria in 1711 has been described as the first efficient example. |
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The first blast furnace in Russia opened in 1637 near Tula and was called the Gorodishche Works. |
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The blast furnace spread from here to the central Russia and then finally to the Urals. |
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In 1709, at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, Abraham Darby began to fuel a blast furnace with coke instead of charcoal. |
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Hot blast enabled the use of raw anthracite coal, which was difficult to light, to the blast furnace. |
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The raw materials are brought to the top of the blast furnace via a skip car powered by winches or conveyor belts. |
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The purpose of the two bells is to minimize the loss of hot gases in the blast furnace. |
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These systems use multiple hoppers to contain each raw material, which is then discharged into the blast furnace through valves. |
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Modern, larger blast furnaces may have as many as four tapholes and two casthouses. |
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The tuyeres are used to implement a hot blast, which is used to increase the efficiency of the blast furnace. |
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The blast furnaces operates as a countercurrent exchange process whereas a bloomery does not. |
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Although the efficiency of blast furnaces is constantly evolving, the chemical process inside the blast furnace remains the same. |
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It is manufactured in a blast furnace fed with diabase rock which contains very low levels of metal oxides. |
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In recent decades, several countries have realized the value of blast furnaces as a part of their industrial history. |
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It was thus a batch process, rather than a continuous one such as a blast furnace. |
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In the 15th century, the blast furnace spread into what is now Belgium where it was improved. |
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Abraham Darby II, son of the blast furnace innovator, managed to convert pig iron to bar iron in 1749, but no details are known of his process. |
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The puddling furnace is a metalmaking technology used to create wrought iron or steel from the pig iron produced in a blast furnace. |
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Hot blast refers to the preheating of air blown into a blast furnace or other metallurgical process. |
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As this considerably reduced the fuel consumed, hot blast was one of the most important technologies developed during the Industrial Revolution. |
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Hot blast also allowed higher furnace temperatures, which increased the capacity of furnaces. |
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James Beaumont Neilson, previously foreman at Glasgow gas works, invented the system of preheating the blast for a furnace. |
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On the basis of a January 1828 patent, Thomas Botfield has a historical claim as the inventor of the hot blast method. |
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Neilson is credited as inventor of hot blast because he won patent litigation. |
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In 1843, just after it expired, 42 of the 80 furnaces in south Staffordshire were using hot blast, and uptake in south Wales was even slower. |
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Other advantages of hot blast were that raw coal could be used instead of coke. |
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Early hot blast stoves were troublesome, as thermal expansion and contraction could cause breakage of pipes. |
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It was also necessary to devise new methods of connecting the blast pipes to the tuyeres, as leather could not longer be used. |
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Attempts to use anthracite as a fuel had ended in failure, as the coal resisted ignition under cold blast conditions. |
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Gessenhainer filed for a US patent on the use of hot blast and anthracite to smelt iron. |
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Since the 17th century the first step in European steel production has been the smelting of iron ore into pig iron in a blast furnace. |
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Calcium carbonate is also used in the purification of iron from iron ore in a blast furnace. |
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The oldest continuous flow processes is the blast furnace for producing pig iron. |
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The coal was exported or processed in coking ovens into coke, used in blast furnaces, producing iron and steel. |
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John Cockerill and his brother James revolutionized the steel industry by using blast furnaces and coke instead of traditional charcoal. |
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Once it has melted, heavy scrap, such as building, construction or steel milling scrap is added, together with pig iron from blast furnaces. |
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Graphite blocks are also used in parts of blast furnace linings where the high thermal conductivity of the graphite is critical. |
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The residual charcoal was widely used as substitute for metallurgical coke in blast furnaces for smelting. |
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Historically, charcoal was used in great quantities for smelting iron in bloomeries and later blast furnaces and finery forges. |
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The tunnel was the proving ground of a number of boring machines for the shot holes, using gelignite to blast the rock. |
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I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me. |
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Now that he was Sir Alfred, there was one final blast of publicity. |
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Sometimes its sky line was broken by an uptoss from some one overpowering blast. |
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Off he trots to a filling station to blast the skin off with the high-pressure air hose. |
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As per DNA reports, the Ashura blast victims were identified as Mukhtar Ali Soomro and his uncle Ali Muhammad Soomro. |
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Bring candid Eyes unto the perusal of mens works, and let not Zoilism or Detraction blast well intended labours. |
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Here, in a dilapidated room, Saleem recounts the November blast. |
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The blast caused a fire at the restaurant in Wuhu city in Anhui province, the report said, citing local authorities. |
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That caused yowls and howls, groans and girns until Euan Norris finally put them out of their misery with the final blast of his whistle. |
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Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others. |
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Blast helps scientists search databases of protein and DNA sequences. |
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The young turntablist quickly partnered with neighbor Fredy Blast. |
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But who today would spend a lot of time reading Wyndham Lewis, a leader of the Vorticists and, in 1914 and 1915, editor of the short-lived but significantly named Blast? |
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This is in order to give the people laying the mines sufficient time to move out of its activation and blast zones. |
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I will use the Priscilla event as a representative example of a thermally precursed blast wave from a nuclear detonation. |
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Each time the trumpet gives a blast, they fire one time, spread out in battle array according to the drilling patterns. |
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The blast furnaces were closed down, perhaps as early as the 1820s, but the foundries remained in use. |
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Six of the nine officers survived, but the blast killed many in the streets and nearby houses and other buildings. |
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There are different ways in which the raw materials are charged into the blast furnace. |
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Crude iron metal is produced in blast furnaces, where ore is reduced by coke to pig iron, which has a high carbon content. |
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Usage of the blast and cupola furnace remained widespread during the Song and Tang Dynasties. |
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The Chinese invented blast furnaces, and created finely tuned copper instruments. |
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The early technique of hot blast used iron for the regenerative heating medium. |
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The Cowper stove was also capable of producing high heat, which resulted in very high throughput of blast furnaces. |
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With the greatly reduced cost of producing pig iron with coke using hot blast, demand grew dramatically and so did the size of blast furnaces. |
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Coke's superior crushing strength allowed blast furnaces to become taller and larger. |
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Coke is used as a fuel and as a reducing agent in smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. |
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During the melting process a thermodynamic reaction takes place between the fuel and the blast air. |
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Why, blast, I mind when I wor boardsman o' the Rose of Sharon. The mate, I f 'rget his name, went hoom unexpected-like one night and found a man in bed 'long o' his old woman. |
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Such mines incorporate electronic sensors designed to detect the presence of a vessel and detonate when it comes within the blast range of the warhead. |
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It used to be that you could take off the cowling, wrap plastic bags around the electrical stuff and vacuum pump, and blast away with engine degunker. |
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It was the location of the first blast furnace facility in North America. |
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Originally Horsehay was nothing more than a farm, until the 1750s when Abraham Darby II built a blast furnace next to what is now known as Horsehay Pool. |
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Blast has also hosted sessions for Johnny Dickinson, nominated as Best New Musician in Radio 2's Folk Awards, and new band Dry Riser. |
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Some nearby were injured by the blast, but Ferdinand's convoy carried on. |
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Red lamps were used to simulate blast furnaces and locomotive fireboxes. |
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Hot blast, patented by James Beaumont Neilson in 1828, was the most important development of the 19th century for saving energy in making pig iron. |
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O for a withering curse to blast the germing of their wicked machinations. |
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The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation. |
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Much later descriptions record blast furnaces about three metres high. |
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Like with last episode's Living Single joke, I felt both immediately put on blast and very deserving of it, which is exactly what good satire should do. |
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Molten iron for this foundry work was not only produced from the blast furnaces, but also by remelting pig iron in air furnaces, a variant of the reverberatory furnace. |
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No Hot Stove League in this town. No, no, no. Here in Boston, USA, and throughout New England, we play in the Blast Furnace League. |
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I run a funnish monogreen Insects deck that uses Winter Blast and Dervishes as partners in crime. |
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Pound wrote for Wyndham Lewis' literary magazine Blast, although only two issues were published. |
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This meant that any given iron furnace required vast tracts of forested land for charcoal production, and generally went out of blast when the nearby woods had been felled. |
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The publication of Blast was celebrated at a dinner attended by New England poet Amy Lowell, then in London to meet the Imagists. |
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This was a particular concern in smelting iron using a blast furnace. |
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Extremely large gas engines were also built as blowing engines for blast furnaces, with one or two extremely large cylinders and powered by the burning of furnace gas. |
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Blast furnaces existed in China from about 1st century AD and in the West from the High Middle Ages. |
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Products which incorporate limestone, fly ash, blast furnace slag, and other useful materials with pozzolanic properties into the mix, are being tested and used. |
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The water content in coke is practically zero at the end of the coking process, but it is often water quenched so that it can be transported to the blast furnaces. |
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Blast off for the rockingest rock in the galaxy, where it's always lunchtime and you rule! |
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Shafts may be sunk by conventional drill and blast or mechanised means. |
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Emerald Performance Materials Specialties Group has reformulated Foam Blast 269 defoamer for inks and overprint varnishes. |
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She isolated new rickettsia species in ticks from wolves that was 98 per cent similar to all other rickettsia species on BLAST analysis. |
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Some of the molten iron from the blast was run into pigs and sent down the Severn for use in Bristol foundries, but much of it was used to cast pots and other cast iron goods. |
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A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals and its alloys, generally iron, but also others such as lead or copper. |
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Schneider and James Ramsden, the railway's general manager, erected blast furnaces at Barrow that by 1876 formed the largest steelworks in the world. |
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Recent evidence,shows that bloomeries were used in China, migrating in from the west as early as 800 BC, before being supplanted by the locally developed blast furnace. |
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There seems to be so much promise too, with Meshuggah being the highest opening sales for Nuclear Blast, now they're on Ozzfest. |
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Many years ago the Blast Beach was well known for Thornbacks, with fish to 12lb not uncommon. |
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However, since blast furnace has also been invented independently in Africa by the Haya people, it is more likely the process has been invented in Scandinavia independently. |
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The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb. |
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Although far smaller in blast power than the Tsar Bomba and other atmospheric tests, the confinement of the blasts underground led to pressures rivaling natural earthquakes. |
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At Laskill, an outstation of Rievaulx Abbey and the only medieval blast furnace so far identified in Britain, the slag produced was low in iron content. |
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Edgar heard a click and a squink, and just when he thought the hood was about to pop open, it exploded with a tremendous blast and he was knocked clear across the garage. |
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Once the storm subsides, we can blast the ice smooth and allow it to superharden. That should sustain a landing while we contrive something longer-term. |
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The Gadlys works, now considered an important archaeological site, originally comprised four blast furnaces, inner forges, rowing mills and puddling furnaces. |
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The unserviceable Sea Hurricane airframe on board was placed on deck for blast trials in a low angle shoot and sustained no damage while in the centre of the deck. |
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From 1755 John Wilkinson became a partner in the Bersham concern and in 1757 with partners, he erected a blast furnace at Willey, near Broseley in Shropshire. |
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Darby's original blast furnace has been archaeologically excavated and can be seen in situ at Coalbrookdale, part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. |
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The Chinese blast furnace remained in use well until the 20th century. |
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Variations of the blast furnace, such as the Swedish electric blast furnace, have been developed in countries which have no native coal resources. |
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Blast furnaces are currently rarely used in copper smelting, but modern lead smelting blast furnaces are much shorter than iron blast furnaces and are rectangular in shape. |
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In winter, too, There is grand aeolism upon my hills, When the blast sweeps the pine-boughs, and wails forth In long-drawn sobs and shrieking semitones. |
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DeCypher speeds BLAST, Framesearch, Smith-Waterman algorithms as well as Hidden Markov Model analysis. |
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Many early mines were fragile and dangerous to handle, as they contained glass containers filled with nitroglycerin or mechanical devices that activated a blast upon tipping. |
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By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast. |
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So Wilson Combat now offers their Blast Diverter for the Rapid Thread Muzzle Brake. |
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The process is similar to that of primary production in either a blast furnace or a rotary furnace, with the essential difference being the greater variability of yields. |
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This is a ring placed either around the base of the chimney, or around the blast pipe orifice, containing several small steam nozzles directed up the chimney. |
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The second more powerful blast destroyed the main air shaft. |
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Here, there were a plethora of blast, pressure and seismographic gauges. |
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The process depended on the development of the blast furnace, of which medieval examples have been discovered at Lapphyttan, Sweden and in Germany. |
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The blast in Wuhu city, Anhui province, was blamed on a gas cylinder. |
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Blast searching identified five and nine contigs assembled from small RNAs of samples T1 and T2 matched onto the genome sequences of badnaviruses in the family Caulimoviridae. |
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Choose from Cherry Blast Shower Gel, a sweet treat of juicy cherry and citrus oils, or try Coconut Kiss Shower Cream, with its creamy milk and exotic coconut. |
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Incredible power-ups will also be available in The BIGS 2, including the ability for players to crush Big Blast home runs and throw Big Heat fastballs past opposing batters. |
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In the century after the Old Blast Furnace closed, it became buried. |
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Juice is available in either Peach Pizazz or Blueberry Blast flavors. |
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This was slightly more productive in the 1720s than the Old Blast Furnace. |
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As well as the Bellydance Blast Off and human bungee activities, there will be a range of workshops on offer at the event, along with music and entertainment. |
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