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tank furnace

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Noun1.tank furnace - furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained
furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
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It refers, in this instance, to 'the best surviving example (though not operational) in Britain of a tank furnace glass shop, and the only one whose remains illustrate an industrial process that revolutionised glass making in the second half of the 19th century'.
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