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A furnace or oven, wherein the flame, or current of heated gases from the fuel, is caused to reverberate, or be reflected down upon the substance under operation, before passing. into the chimney: such rever-beratories are therefore usually made with dome tops, against which the flames etc. first impinge, and then curve downwards upon the bed of the furnace.
 
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