[steel-making furnace] open-hearth furnace.
fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons;
grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose[obs3]; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog.
[area near a fireplace] hearth, inglenook.
[residential heating methods] oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove,
pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat, convective heat.
hothouse, bakehouse[obs3], washhouse[obs3]; laundry; conservatory;
sudatory[obs3]; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath,
sauna, warm bath; vaporarium[obs3].
#387. Refrigerator.
— N. refrigerator, refrigeratory[obs3];
frigidarium[obs3]; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory;
icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper,
polyurethane cooler; wine cooler.
freezer, deep freeze,
dry ice freezer, liquid nitrogen freezer,
refigerator-freezer.
freezing mixture[refrigerating
substances], ice, ice cubes, blocks of
ice, chipped ice; liquid nitrogen, dry ice, dry ice-acetone,
liquid helium.
#388. Fuel. —
N. fuel, firing, combustible.
[solid fuels] coal,
wallsend[obs3], anthracite, culm[obs3], coke,
carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf,
peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder &c. (products
of combustion) 384; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur,
brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball,
brand; amadou[obs3], bavin[obs3]; blind coal, glance
coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge
[U. S.]; solid fueled rocket.
[fuels for candles and
lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp
oil, whale oil.
[liquid fuels] oil,
petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline,
nitromethane[ISA:CHEMSUB@fuel], petrol, gas, juice
[coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel
oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil,
number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse
fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.
[gaseous fuels] natural
gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane,
butane, hydrogen.
brand, torch, fuse;
wick; spill, match, light, lucifer,
congreve[obs3], vesuvian, vesta[obs3], fusee, locofoco[obs3];
linstock[obs3].
candle &c. (luminary)
423; oil &c. (grease) 356.
Adj. carbonaceous; combustible,
inflammable; high octane, high
specific impulse; heat of combustion,.
#388a. Insulation,
Fire extinction. {ant. of 388} — insulation,
incombustible material, noncombustible material; fire
retardant, flame retardant; fire wall, fire door.
incombustibility, incombustibleness
&c. adj.
extincteur[Fr]; fire
annihilator; amianth[obs3], amianthus[obs3];


