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    Cold blast, in ironmaking, refers to a metallurgical furnace where air is not preheated before being blown into the furnace. This represents the earliest...
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    for portable use have a flat wick and are made in dead-flame, hot-blast, and cold-blast variants. Pressurized kerosene lamps use a gas mantle; these are...
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    A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air and lies within a pronounced surface trough...
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    A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or...
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    ore. These can be subdivided into: Cold blast furnaces Hot blast furnaces The bloomery, a precursor to the blast furnace that produces sponge iron from...
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  • 1832–1837 with intermittent but sporadically improved successes using cold blast processes with two differently designed furnaces. While this preliminary...
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    Hot blast refers to the preheating of air blown into a blast furnace or other metallurgical process. As this considerably reduced the fuel consumed, hot...
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    Company) is a lighting products manufacturer best known for its hot blast and cold blast kerosene lanterns. The company was founded in 1840 when its founder...
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  • Blast from the Past is a 1999 American romantic comedy science fantasy adventure film directed and co-produced by Hugh Wilson, based on a story by Wilson—who...
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    Australia have a colourful history, we reminisce, as south-east braces for cold blast". ABC News. Retrieved 2024-06-18. "5 July 1900 Snowstorm" (PDF). "5 July...
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  • and DeSarno, together with John Luraschi (bass), had played together in Cold Blast and Steel. Luraschi was an Upstage veteran and had been a fringe member...
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  • either hot-blast technology—like modern blast furnaces, in which the blast air is preheated to a high temperature—or the older cold-blast technology....
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    under a cold blast. 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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    Information". Bloomberg.com. 14 August 2023. Staff, "FROM OVER HILLS COMES COLD BLAST - And Citrus Men Are Hard Hit, Is Claimed", The San Bernardino Daily Sun...
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    The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union...
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    with the golden horns Hercules had seen "the far-off land beyond the cold blast of Boreas. [Hyperborea]" Hence, as the reindeer is said to be the only...
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    "partial decarbonization" method of repeated forging of cast iron under a cold blast. Sinologist Joseph Needham and historian of metallurgy Theodore A. Wertime...
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  • stoves or hot blast; so it appears that the furnace used a cold-blast technology. A cold air blast made it more difficult—but not impossible—to achieve a...
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    blast furnace was remelted in a cupola furnace; it was designed so that a cold blast injected at the bottom traveled through tuyere pipes across the top where...
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    an additional 142.5 acres (0.577 km2) of land. In 1742 Peter built a cold blast furnace and named it Cornwall, after his father's birthplace in England...
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  • returns to Marvell in The Waste Land with the lines "But at my back in a cold blast I hear / The rattle of the bones" (Part III, line 185) and "But at my...
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    process that utilized partial decarbonization via repeated forging under a cold blast. By the 11th century, there was a large amount of deforestation in China...
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  • In bioinformatics, BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is an algorithm and program for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as...
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    A blast shelter is a place where people can go to protect themselves from blasts and explosions, like those from bombs, or in hazardous worksites, such...
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    that blast furnaces, that convert raw iron ore into pig iron, which can be remelted in a cupola furnace to produce cast iron by means of a cold blast and...
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    partial decarbonization method of repeated forging of cast iron under a cold blast that Hartwell and Needham consider to be a predecessor to the 18th century...
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  • virtues". Tim Sendra of AllMusic said, ""Awaken, My Love!" is a stone-cold blast from beginning to end". Matthew Strauss of Pitchfork said, "There are...
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  • were a type of blast furnace specifically designed for smelting non-ferrous metals. These furnaces used 'cold blast'; that is the air blast was not heated...
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    "Snow falls in WA in April for first time in 49 years as Good Friday cold blast turns Bluff Knoll white". Weatherzone. Archived from the original on 20...
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    England as a source of iron ore. As early as 1726, it may have included a cold blast charcoal furnace. Accokeek/Potomac served as the headquarters of the Principio...
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