Word Finder - flue

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A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).

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An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.

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A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.

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In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

A flue should in all cases be provided to carry off the fumes of the fuel.

The coil is encased with firebricks and brickwork, and the smoke from the fire is carried, off by a flue in the ordinary s " way.

Unless suitable fresh air inlets are provided, this form of stove will cause the room to be draughty, the strong current of warm air up the flue drawing cold air in through the crevices in the doors and windows.

The Rocket possessed the three elements of efficiency of the modern locomotive - the internal water-surrounded fire-box and the multitubular flue in the boiler; the blast-pipe, by which the steam after doing its work in the cylinders was exhausted up the chimney, and thus served to increase the draught and promote the rapid combustion of the fuel; and the direct connexion of the steam cylinders, one on each side of the engine, with the two driving wheels mounted on one axle.

They are long and narrow; the sole is plane, but slopes from the fire-bridge towards the flue, so that the metal runs to the latter end to collect in pots placed outside the furnace.

We found stacks of box flue tiles and voussoir tiles in the hypocaust chamber where we would expect to find stacks of flat tiles.

The element is usually obtained from the flue dust or chamber deposits of sulphuric-acid works in which a seleniferous pyrites is burned.

Double skin insulated flue pipe creates a Class I insulated chimney.

Some highly toxic dioxin is also formed despite careful control of the flue gas temperatures.

I have the perfect position in mind but am not able to install an outside flue.

The flue chorus makes an excellent dialog with the great diapasons for the classical repertoire.

The adverse impact of the cooker hood could be enhanced by the stack effect of warm effluent in the disused fluent in the disused flue.

Make sure new water heaters in a bathroom are fitted to a balanced flue.

But the odd little brick dimple here or a shiny stainless steel flue there are inadequate.

A ' flue liner ' is the material used to form the flue liner ' is the material used to form the flue within the chimney.

In standard efficiency boilers, the flue gases leave the boiler at high enough temperatures for the water vapor to appear invisible.

A possible solution would be to line the chimney flue with an insulated liner that is brought down to a point above the Inglenook.

He had with him one of his wooden flue pipes, orchestral oboe.

The balanced flue outlets are ordered separately from the heater and a choice of wall outlet or roof outlet is available.

Like the great, the sixteen top notes of the clarion are composed of flue pipes.

Non load bearing walls are built in flue gas gypsum plasterboard which is 100% recycled.

Emissions from the 680 kW plant are minimized by use of a cyclone separator, an exhaust fan and a flue gas scrubber.

Dektite retrofit roof flashing fitting instructions Trim the cone of the Dektite flashing to suit the flue pipe using sharp tin snips.

Spark arresters can prevent spark arresters can prevent sparks from the flue landing on the thatch, however they must be cleaned regularly.

Remove the stove's baffle, and then pull the flue spigot into the stove's flange.

A power flue venter is available as an optional extra.

If each distributing flue is connected by means of a mixing valve with a cold-air flue, the warmth of the incoming air can be regulated to a nicety (see Ventilation).

New adjudication in 1998 was expected to be the forum for a quarrel about whether the flue liners were a variation or not.

Spark arresters can prevent sparks from the flue landing on the thatch, however they must be cleaned regularly.

This report by Robert Davidson examines the role of coal chlorine on the speciation of mercury in coal combustion flue gas.

The flue pipe must be suitably sealed with spigot end facing down (into the socket of the pipe below).

Remove the stove 's baffle, and then pull the flue spigot into the stove 's flange.

The original open wickerwork chimney hood is a delight but they are considering lining inside with a discrete steel flue for added safety.

Check your Fireplace -- Make sure that your fireplace is clean and safe by inspecting the flue and making sure that the chimney is free from bird nests and other debris.

If you already have a fireplace in the bedroom wall of the bathroom, it will be easier to connect to the flue.

The fumes created by the combustion process are vented out through a flue in the roof or through a pipe leading out of the side of the house in newer installations.

In some places at present "they neuerseuertheir lambes from their dammes "; " and the poore of the peeke (high) countreye, and such other places, where, as they vse to mylke theyr ewes, they vse to wayne theyr lambes at 12 weekes olde, and to mylke their ewes flue or syxe weekes "; but that, he observes, " is greate hurte to the ewes, and wyll cause them that they wyll not take the ramme at the tyme of the yere for pouertye, but goo barreyne."

The iron case is then removed, the whole is covered with charcoal, and a cast iron cover with a central flue is placed above all.

Small quantities are occasionally met with in iron pyrites, and hence tellurium is found with selenium in the flue dust, or chamber deposits of sulphuric acid works.

The kilns commonly employed are "chamber kilns," circular structures not unlike an ordinary running lime kiln, but having the top closed and connected at the side with a wide flue in which the slurry is exposed to the hot products of combustion from the kiln.

The slurry, in drying on the floor of the flue, forms a fairly tough cake which cracks spontaneously in the process of drying into rough blocks suitable for loading into the kiln.

On the morning of the 29th of September 1902 Zola was found dead in the bedroom of his Paris house, having been accidentally asphyxiated by the fumes from a defective flue.

The supply of the nitric acid required to make up this loss is obtained in England by "potting" that is, by decomposing solid nitrate of soda by sulphuric acid in a flue between the pyrites burners and the chambers.

These gases enter the combustion chamber around the retorts at a high temperature, and are there supplied with sufficient air to complete their combustion, this secondary air supply being heated by the hot products of combustion on their way to the exit flue.

The amount of draft which is necessary to carry out the circulation of the gases and to draw in the adequate amount of air is regulated by dampers placed in the main flue.

H is the gas flue; I, the perpendicularly ascending shaft, io or 12 ft.

It is obtained commercially by roasting arsenical pyrites in either a Brunton's or Oxland's rotatory calciner, the crude product being collected in suitable condensing chambers, and afterwards refined by resublimation, usually in reverberatory furnaces, the foreign matter being deposited in a long flue leading to the condensing chambers.

The pressure switch monitors flow and shuts down the heater in the event of flue or combustion air blockage.

The flue chorus makes an excellent dialog with the Great diapasons for the classical repertoire.

The fire is then controlled by using the secondary air vents and flue damper only.