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blast furnace

type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals
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blast furnace

Summary

blast furnace ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,383 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace[2].
  • blast furnace is a type of aggregate machine[3].
  • blast furnace's Commons category is recorded as Blast furnaces[4].
  • blast furnace's Commons gallery is recorded as Blast furnace[5].
  • blast furnace's product or material produced is recorded as cast iron[6].
  • blast furnace's product or material produced is recorded as ferroalloy[7].
  • blast furnace's described by source is recorded as Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[8].
  • blast furnace's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[9].
  • blast furnace's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[10].
  • blast furnace's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • blast furnace's replaces is recorded as bloomery[12].
  • blast furnace's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include metallurgical furnace[2] and aggregate machine[3].

Why It Matters

blast furnace ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,383 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 706
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  2. 10d ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 706
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