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- noun Plural form of
tuyere .
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Examples
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The Dakawa site turned up furnaces, tuyeres, iron slag, bones, and the remains of hearths, indicating that communities of farmers who kept some small livestock and who smelted iron lived in the region.
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The hot water that cooled the tuyeres came into it, some fifty yards up — a tumultuous, almost boiling affluent, and the steam rose up from the water in silent white wisps and streaks, wrapping damply about them, an incessant succession of ghosts coming up from the black and red eddies, a white uprising that made the head swim.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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The refuse in its descent through the high furnace is exposed to the drying action of the hot gases of distillation and the hot products of combustion, its temperature increasing in its descent the nearer it approaches the tuyeres, and becomes completely desiccated and combustible when it reaches the blast.
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Such tuyeres connect with an annular space in which, where a blast is used, the air pressure is controlled by a blower.
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The sides of the hearth are perforated near the bottom with arches for the tuyeres or blast pipes, and also in front for the special blast pipe and the tapping hole.
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When burned on a hearth the air for combustion is introduced into the furnace through several rows of tuyeres placed above and symmetrically around the hearth.
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An arrangement of such tuyeres over a grate, and a proper manipulation of the ashpit doors, will overcome largely the objection to grates and at the same time enable other fuel to be burned in the furnace when necessary.
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This arrangement of grates and tuyeres is probably the better from a commercially efficient standpoint.
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Air for combustion is admitted through the tuyeres
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Where the air is admitted through tuyeres over the grate or hearth line, it impinges on the fuel pile as a whole and causes a uniform combustion.
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