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    A tuyere or tuyère (French pronunciation: [tɥijɛʁ]; English: /twiːˈjɛər/) is a tube, nozzle or pipe allowing the blowing of air into a furnace or hearth...
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    cooler than the salt bath. The tuyère pyrometer is an optical instrument for temperature measurement through the tuyeres, which are normally used for feeding...
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    into the lower section of the furnace through a series of pipes called tuyeres, so that the chemical reactions take place throughout the furnace as the...
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    or crucible, and which was usually done through the mediation of a tuyère. Tuyères used in conjunction with pot bellows had the function of protecting...
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    type of forge: Tuyere—a pipe through which air can be forced into the fire Bellows or blower—a means for forcing air into the tuyere Hearth—a place where...
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    (made of clay or metal) enter through the side walls. These pipes, called tuyeres, allow air to enter the furnace, either by natural draught or forced with...
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  • leads to more heat transfer through the clay walls of the tuyère. Many small pieces of tuyère with physical characteristics indicating their presence inside...
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  • bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components. 1907: The tuyères thermopropulsives after 1945 (Maurice Roy (fr)) known as the statoreacteur...
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    was designed so that a cold blast injected at the bottom traveled through tuyere pipes across the top where the charge (i.e. of charcoal and scrap or pig...
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    Tichitt Tradition at Dhar Néma, tamed pearl millet was used to temper the tuyeres of an oval-shaped low shaft furnace; this furnace was one out of 16 iron...
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    charged with charcoal and iron ore and then lit. Air was blown in through a tuyere to heat the bloomery to a temperature somewhat below the melting point of...
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    and outside the peninsula. The discovery of iron smelting furnaces and tuyere suggest that Sungai Batu became a focal point of the global iron trade....
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    converter that is then rotated, supplying the slag with oxygen through tuyeres. The reaction is as follows: 2FeS(l)+3O2(g)+SiO2(s) -> Fe2SiO4(l) + 2SO2(g)...
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    radiocarbon dated iron artifacts in Uttar Pradesh, including furnaces, tuyeres, and slag between c. 1800 and 1000 BCE. The use of iron and iron working...
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    Metallurgy in Northern Europe: An Early Neolithic Crucible and a Possible Tuyère from Lønt, Denmark". European Journal of Archaeology. 24 (1). Cambridge:...
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    blacksmith's forge, which commonly causes a large buildup of clinker around the tuyere. Clinker often forms a loose, dark deposit consisting of waste materials...
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    Nozzles used for feeding hot blast into a blast furnace or forge are called tuyeres. Jet nozzles are also used in large rooms where the distribution of air...
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  • plaguy obsequy, soliloquy /jʊɪ/ toluyl /uːj/ thuya, gruyere /wiː/ puy /wiːj/ tuyere w /uː/ cwm y before multiple consonants bef. 2+ unstressed syllables next...
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    praised as often being more effective than other remedies. Burnt pipes (or tuyere), stone tools, broken calabash, decorated potsherds, and pottery (e.g.,...
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  • Ed Lowry, p. 125. SIU Press (Carbondale), 2002. Accessed 12 Jan 2014. "Tuyere Blasts". Iowa Transit. October 1924. Yannucci, Lisa. "When Lucy Had a Steam...
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  • macroscopic features of a sample of tuyère fragments were recorded. No complete tuyères were noted. The tuyères varied in colour from reddish or orange-yellow...
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  • Tichitt Tradition at Dhar Néma, tamed pearl millet was used to temper the tuyeres of an oval-shaped low shaft iron furnace, one of 16 located on elevated...
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    was designed so that a cold blast injected at the bottom traveled through tuyere pipes across the top where the charge (i.e. of charcoal and scrap or pig...
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    Brandenburg). Graves containing moulds (like at Bataune, in Saxony) and tuyeres attest to the production of bronze tools and weapons at the village level...
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  • the tuyere (mid-bottom inlet of a blast furnace), then mixed with secondary hot air (termed the "blast") supplied through a blowpipe in the tuyere and...
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    on the side would be used to add oxygen. Clay pipes on the sides called tuyères would be used to control oxygen flow. Two examples of European efforts...
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  • interrogated by the Tuyere; badly frightened, he fumbles and grows agitated under their mockery, becoming borderline insubordinate. The Tuyere calm him down...
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    included objects of wrought iron, a quantity of iron slag, fragments of tuyere, pottery, figurine fragments, red ocher, quartz hammer-stones, and small...
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    copper was not as favorable as for iron, and the matte solidified in the tuyeres before being refined. Even when modified, a Bessemer converter was capable...
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    reaction. The gases are usually blown through a top lance (oxygen only) and tuyeres in the sides/bottom (oxygen with an inert gas shroud). The stages of blowing...
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