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electric furnace

a furnace heated to high temperatures by an electric current, used in smelting, melting metals, steel making, manufacturing carbides, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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