[ noun ] a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks <noun.artifact>
Kiln \Kiln\ (k[i^]ln or k[i^]l), n. [OE. kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen; akin to Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See {Coal}.] 1. A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
2. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
A small ceramic cone inside, set to melt at a certain temperature, will tell her whether the kiln is hot enough.
The only waste product is saleable potassium. It works by mixing the dust with water to form slurry, and then combining the mixture with waste gases from the cement kiln.
Mr. He, the poor peasant from Dongwan, gets by only because officials arranged jobs for him and two brothers at a local brick kiln.
The first kiln has been commissioned. Consortium members will have the right to a non-exclusive royalty-free licence to the MAGF technology.
The contaminants are mixed with unrecyclable solvents and shipped to a cement kiln where they are used as fuel.