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Electric furnace

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-009076

1. Any furnace which uses electricity to produce over 50 percent of the heat required in the production of refined brass or bronze.

2. Smelting furnace consisting of a vessel into which reverberatory furnace slag is introduced and that uses electrical energy to heat the reverberatory furnace slag to such a temperature (greater than 980 Celsius) that lead compounds are reduced to elemental lead metal.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-009076
FieldEnvironment
SubjectBuilt environments
References40 CFR 60.131 (CFR 2013); 40 CFR 63.542 (CFR 2018)
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009076",
  "term": "Electric furnace",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Electric Furnace",
  "definition": "1. Any furnace which uses electricity to produce over 50 percent of the heat required in the production of refined brass or bronze.\n\n2. Smelting furnace consisting of a vessel into which reverberatory furnace slag is introduced and that uses electrical energy to heat the reverberatory furnace slag to such a temperature (greater than 980 Celsius) that lead compounds are reduced to elemental lead metal.",
  "subject": "Built environments",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 60.131 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.542 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/electric-furnace/"
}

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