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Meanings of solar furnace in English

Portuguese
colectores solares

A concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun; can produce high temperatures.

colectores solares
Usage of solar furnace in English
1
What with using the solar furnace as a radiator, we can make do.
All Day September
2
He used the solar furnace that had made the silicone wool to smelt it.
Sand Doom
3
The power crew was having trouble with the solar furnace.
All Day September
4
Dr. L. knows of only one other solar furnace in the U.S., that is in San Diego.
The new yorker
5
It is difficult to create high temperatures under laboratory conditions; a solution is the use of the solar furnace.
The new yorker
6
If submitted to the heat of this appalling solar furnace, an iron poker, for instance, would vanish into invisible vapor.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
7
The solar furnace was a rough parabola of mirrors used to focus the sun's heat on anything that it was desirable to heat.
All Day September
8
And it was hot; the sunlight, breaking through the clouds, reflected from the walls, and the arid canyon already felt like a solar furnace.
The Long Earth
9
"Has the power crew set up the solar furnace?"
All Day September
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