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the furnace turns winter into a rumor and your wallet into ash.
means A furnace is an enclosed structure or appliance that generates intense heat, used to warm a building, smelt metal, or burn fuel.
from From Latin 'fornax,' a furnace or oven, which traces back to 'fornus' (oven) and the root 'formus,' meaning warm — a cousin, fittingly, of the same heat-words that gave us 'forno' and 'forge.' It reached English through Old French 'fornaise.' The deeper root is tied to warmth itself, so the word has been radiating heat, etymologically speaking, since long before it ever cost you a heating bill.
- blast temps
- Steel furnaces hit 2000°C, hotter than flowing lava
- old roots
- Romans piped furnace heat under floors, called hypocaust
- the sun
- A nuclear fusion furnace burning four billion years
- forge origin
- Latin fornax, the same root as fornication
- silent killer
- Faulty furnaces leak odorless, deadly carbon monoxide
lotus furnace kiln — ancient roman hypocaust heating system at pompeii, italy, buried in 79 ad with still-visible brick furnace
allegheny ludlum furnace — electric arc furnace in pennsylvania, one of world's largest stainless steel production furnaces active since 1950s