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fritting-furnace

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In glass manufacturing, a form of reverberatory furnace in which the materials are fritted, or partially decomposed and fused, as a preliminary to fusing in the melting-pots. This process was essential when kelp was used in glass-making, but is now seldom practised.

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