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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
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        Examples for "solar dish"
        Examples for "solar dish"
        1
        The company plans to deploy 26,540 solar dishes called Suncatchers at Calico.
        Reuters
        1
        Their long roofs were all made from solar collector panels.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        2
        Tina led a team of high-school students who spread out a solar collector the size and consistency of a parachute.
        Super Man and the Bug Out
        3
        An LED lamp squatted beside it with a cord snaking up the grimy wall to a solar collector in the window.
        The Churn
        4
        The total solar collector area installed on Europe's roofs is now over 7 million square metres, and the industry employs over 10,000 people.
        The Irish Times
        5
        And that's with the solar collectors up at full.
        Cibola Burn
        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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