A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called a bloom.

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bloomery process, Process for iron smelting. In ancient times, smelting involved creating a bed of red-hot charcoal in a furnace to which iron ore mixed with more charcoal was added.

A bloomery is a type of furnace that was once widely used for smelting oxides. Bloomeries were the first smelters able to smelt iron. The result of using a bloomery is a mass of iron and slag called a bloom. This is called sponge iron, because it is porous like a sponge. Sponge iron is usually refined into wrought iron.

During the iron-age, bloomery furnaces rapidly replaced open charcoal fires as an effective way to forge. These furnaces or pits were made of clay and stone and were designed to be heat-resistant, built with pipes referred to as tuyeres.

Though iron production on an industrial scale is a relatively recent discovery, more than four thousand years ago a simple process - now called ‘direct reduction’ using what has become known as a Bloomery Furnace - was in use in the Middle East for making wrought iron. It was based on a chemical reaction, the removal of the oxygen from the ore.

A bloomery is a type of furnace once widely used for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. A bloomery's product is a porous mass of iron and slag called a bloom.

liquation, technique for separating constituents of an ore, a metal, or an alloy by partial melting. When the material is heated to a temperature where one of the constituents melts and the other remains solid, the liquid constituent can be drained off.

The meaning of BLOOMERY is a furnace and forge in which wrought-iron blooms were formerly made directly from the ore or more rarely from cast iron.

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