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a tank that calmly hoards enough pressure to level a building if ignored.
means a closed vessel that heats water—or boils it into steam—to supply heat or power for a building, engine, or industrial process.
from From "boil," which came into Middle English as "boillen" from Old French "boillir," itself from Latin "bullire," "to bubble" — built on "bulla," a bubble or blister (the same root that swells into "bullet" and "bulletin"). The agent suffix "-er" turns the verb into a thing that boils, a sense that hardened into the iron pressure-vessels of the steam age.
- Explosive past
- 19th-century boiler blasts killed thousands on steamboats.
- Origin of crisis
- Word boilerplate comes from steel plates on boilers.
- Hidden heat
- Industrial boilers can exceed 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Safety born
- ASME code exists largely to stop boilers exploding.
- Energy giant
- Most power plants are just boilers spinning turbines.
great eastern — isambard kingdom brunel's 1858 steamship with the largest boiler ever fitted to a ship
titanic's boiler rooms — 29 coal-fired boilers that powered the 1912 liner, flooded during the sinking