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    Look up bloomery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides...
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    Bloomery is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Bloomery is located along the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia...
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  • A bloomery is a type of furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. Bloomery may also refer to: Bloomery, Hampshire County, West Virginia...
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    processes, all described today as "bloomeries". Different forms of bloomery were used at different places and times. The bloomery was charged with charcoal and...
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    Laurel Bloomery is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Tennessee. Settled in the early 19th century, the community's first bloomery forge mill...
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    of the fragments was made of bloomery iron rather than meteoritic iron. The earliest iron artifacts made from bloomeries in China date to end of the 9th...
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    African iron smelting processes are variants of the bloomery process. A much wider range of bloomery smelting processes has been recorded on the African...
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    convection of hot gases in a chimney flue. According to this broad definition, bloomeries for iron, blowing houses for tin, and smelt mills for lead would be classified...
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    iron is possible only by reducing iron's ductility. Steel was produced in bloomery furnaces for thousands of years, but its large-scale, industrial use began...
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    Most early processes in Europe and Africa involved smelting iron ore in a bloomery, where the temperature is kept low enough so that the iron does not melt...
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