Draw a neat labelled diagram of reverberatory furnace.
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A reverberatory furnace is a furnace that is mainly used for the extraction of tin, copper, aluminum, and nickel metals as well as in the production of certain concretes and cements.
The furnace is mostly used for smelting and refining these materials.
The process of obtaining a metal either as an element or as a simple compound from its ore by heating beyond the melting point in the presence of oxidizing agents such as air and coke is known as smelting. Copper is the first metal to be smelted followed by tin, lead, and silver.
Refining is a method of removing impurities to obtain metals of high purity.
