(n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
(n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
Example Sentences:
(1) Included in the thermal destruction category are treatment technologies such as rotary kiln incineration, fluidized bed incineration, infrared thermal treatment, wet air oxidation, pyrolytic incineration, and vitrification.
(2) Kiln dust (KD) was fed as a digestive tract buffer, and the +KD diets contained 1.23% Ca and .37% P compared with .45% Ca and .36% P in -KD diets on an as-fed basis.
(3) The addition of Georgia cement kiln dust to the diet of cattle or weanling male rats has been reported to increase body weight and feed efficiency.
(4) Just twenty-four hours after the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy announcement, royal baby mania saw the government rush to end discrimination against female royals in the line of succession and the first commemorative mugs hit the kiln.
(5) In a small area (approximately 40 km2) against the mountains there is a concentration of over 20 large plants: oil refinery; iron and steel mill; fertilizer, cement, and gypsum production; coke kilns; and chemical, paint, and many other ancillary plants.
(6) Smoking was performed in the kiln of the institute at controlled temperatures.
(7) A total of 23 stationary air samples were collected during the entire working period of the kiln either above the kiln doors or approximately 2 m in front of the kiln doors (i.e.
(8) While surveying the hygienic conditions in small to medium ceramic industries, it was noted that an acute thermal stress problem existed in kiln unloading operations being performed manually.
(9) Read more The rescued children had moved from the eastern state of Odisha and were living and working with adults presumed to be their parents in the brick kiln, police said.
(10) Four steers were IS and 24 steers were assigned to a factorial arrangement of treatments (- or + Synovex-S ear implant and - or + dietary kiln dust), fed for 126 d and slaughtered.
(11) Children work in farms, eateries, mining, cotton firms, brick kilns and homes.
(12) The changes in the microbial load during steeping, germination, drying, kilning, and debranning of wheat and chickpea were studied, and the microflora of a weaning food formulation based on 48-hours germinated wheat and 24-hours germinated chickpea was also assayed.
(13) The level of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from smoking kilns in Danish smokehouses was determined.
(14) The air is thick with fumes; smog seeps out from the hundreds of wood-burning kilns and smokehouses scattered across this community.
(15) Another is to burn the munitions in an armoured kiln.
(16) They cannot be built any bigger, as the lifting machinery and conveyor belt used to ferry the coffin into the 1,000C kiln are not designed to handle anything heavier.
(17) The rotary kiln incinerator at the 3M Chemolite plant in Cottage Grove, Minnesota is briefly described.
(18) A survey of benzo(a)pyrene contents in 32 samples of smoked fish is given, which had been hot or cold smoked in two different types of kilns.
(19) From India’s brick kilns to North Korean labour camps in Siberia – from fishing boats off the coast of Thailand to the enslavement of children in cannabis factories and nail bars across the UK – global awareness of the nature and scale of modern slavery is growing.
(20) Baum points to China and Vietnam, where soot from brick kilns is now coming under strict regulations.
Smelt
Definition:
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(n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
(n.) A gull; a simpleton.
(v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The risk factors with statistical significance in conditional logistic regression analysis were exposure time of smelting, time of underground drilling, and age of beginning mining underground.
(2) A 50-yr-old man with a history of 19 yr of work in the aluminum smelting industry, including 14 years in the potrooms, was found to have diffuse interstitial fibrosis, slightly more severe in the upper zones.
(3) Inhalation is clearly related to the development of lung cancer in (copper) smelting and arsenical pesticide manufacturing, and also in heavily exposed wine merchants who had an additional source of exposure by ingestion.
(4) On the outskirts of Sheffield there is a wood which, some 800 years ago, was used by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey to produce charcoal for smelting iron.
(5) Of the 20 different materials in a phone , only a small fraction are ever recuperated, even in the most sophisticated electronics recycling plants such as the huge smelting and electrolysis facility run by metals firm Umicore in Antwerp.
(6) Quantities of land-disposed or stored residuals, including slags, sludges, and dusts, are given per unit of metal production for most primary and secondary metal smelting and refining industries.
(7) Pronounced distinctions were found between the structure of the medial gut of smelts and that of the pike (Esox lucius Linné).
(8) The article reports the results of the investigation on atmospheric pollution and mercury poisoning caused by the peasants mercury smelting.
(9) Elevated arsenic concentrations were found in the vicinity of the mining and smelting areas of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and Atikokan, Ontario.
(10) Mean wet-weight concentrations of PCB's similar to Aroclor 1254 ranged from 2.7 ppm in rainbow smelt to 15 ppm in lake trout.
(11) ALAU in white-footed mice trapped in the vicinity of a lead smelter has been measured to study the biological effect of lead smelting operations and the rate at which the ALAU level diminishes after removing animals from contaminated environments.
(12) He used to beat people to death, but there was too much blood ("It smelt awful").
(13) We studied three patients with a progressive neurologic disorder, all of whom had worked for over 12 years in the same potroom of an aluminum smelting plant.
(14) Ultrafine metal oxides and SO2 react during coal combustion or smelting operations to form primary emissions coated with an acidic SOx layer.
(15) "I'm not sure what's on it, because when I opened it, it smelt of vinegar, so I've sent it to be treated.
(16) A cDNA for a type II antifreeze protein was isolated from liver of smelt (Osmerus mordax).
(17) A semicohort of children, initial age about 11.5 years, from an exposure area near a secondary lead smelting plant (E group children) was examined for some humoral immune response parameters in the blood and saliva and compared to a group of control children matched by age living in a relatively unpolluted rural area (Co group children).
(18) One way or another, American TV woke up and smelt it.
(19) In some parts of the town, which once thrived on silver mining and smelting as well as a spa, whole housing blocks stand empty while others have been torn down.
(20) And when I met Karl Lagerfeld, he smelt exactly the same.