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Submerged arc furnace

Also called submerged-arc furnace, carbothermic reduction

An electric furnace whose electrodes are buried in the charge, used to make ferroalloys and silicon metal by carbothermic reduction, in which carbon strips oxygen from ore.

Also listed under Minerals.

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