Definition of Gas furnace

1. Noun. A furnace that burns gas.

Generic synonyms: Furnace

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Furnace

gas clathrates
gas company
gas constant
gas constants
gas cooker
gas cylinder
gas cylinders
gas cyst
gas embolism
gas engine
gas fire
gas fires
gas fitter
gas fitting
gas fixture
gas furnace (current term)
gas gage
gas gangrene
gas gangrene antitoxin
gas gauge
gas gauges
gas generator
gas giant
gas giants
gas gun
gas guzzler
gas guzzlers
gas heat
gas heater
gas helmet

Literary usage of Gas furnace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1851)
"GAS-FURNACE FOR PERFORMING COMBUSTIONS IN ORGANIC ANALYSIS. ... THIS gas-furnace is intended for heating the combustion-tubes used in organic analysis, ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"The crucibles are closed with covers and put into the melting-furnaces, of which there ore two, an 8-pot ordinary furnace and a 2-l-pot Siemens gas-furnace, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The regenerative gas furnace, which is used exclusively in the United States, ... Unlike the coke furnace, the gas furnace is run continuously, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1914)
"... design would do away with much of the trouble and expense attending the present type of producer-gas furnace, and greatly decrease the operating-cost. ..."

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