| 单词 | sun furnace |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun furnace sun furnace n. [in sense (a) after classical Latin hēliocamīnus ( < Hellenistic Greek ἡλιοκάμινος)] (a) Roman History a south-facing room with glass or mica windows, designed to trap heat (somewhat rare); (b) an apparatus designed to produce intense heating by concentrating the sun's rays using mirrors, etc.; = solar furnace n. at solar adj. and n.1 Compounds 3.The furnace referred to in quot. 1893 was never completed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > miscellaneous apparatus bain1477 speculum1650 filtering paper1651 wheel-fire1662 filter paper1670 sun furnace1763 respirator1789 candle-ball1794 rectifier1822 candle-bomb1823 filter1823 oxyhydrogen blowpipe1823 shade1837 graduator1839 pipette1839 thistle funnel1849 pressure tube1852 ozonizer1858 dialyser1861 Liebig condenser1861 Sprengel pump1866 Sprengel tube1866 water softener1867 mercury pump1869 Bunsen burner1870 dialysator1877 test-mixer1877 tube-condenser1877 Kipp1879 reflux condenser1880 policeman1888 converter1889 pressure boiler1891 spot plate1896 hydrogen electrode1898 sampler1902 reactor1903 fume-chamber1905 Permutit1910 microburner1911 salt bridge1915 precipitator1919 Raschig ring1920 microneedle1921 titrator1928 laboratory coatc1936 spray tower1937 precipitron1938 ion exchanger1941 potentiostat1942 chemostat1950 Knudsen pipette1951 pH-stat1956 cryopump1958 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > burning mirror > sun furnace sun furnace1763 1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. I. 49 Pliny the younger tells us that the antients made use of Helio-caminæ, or Sun-furnaces, for private sweating, Vaporaries contrived so as to concentrate the rays of the sun. 1893 Industries & Iron 8 Sept. 390/1 Sir Henry Bessemer has thirty acres of ground at Denmark Hill..I must devote more than a passing word to..a remarkable structure called the Sun Furnace. This is an erection which was possibly well nigh revolutionising the world, let alone the science of metallurgy. 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Feb. 17/3 A sun furnace which..can concentrate the temperature of the sun's surface on a space about three inches in diameter. 2008 B. Dumaine Plot to save Planet viii. 183 The Romans added glass or mica to windows in their south-facing rooms to trap more heat, creating what they called a sun furnace. 2009 M. A. Zahran & A. J. Willis Vegetation of Egypt (ed. 2) ix. 341 In addition to desalination of sea water and pumping of ground water, solar energy could be used to produce electric power, operation of sun furnaces etc. < as lemmas |
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