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← HistoryWhich phenomenon allowed early furnaces using bellows to achieve sufficiently high smelting temperatures?
A)Forced convection increasing heat transfer
B)Adiabatic compression raising gas temperatures
C)Induced draft enhancing combustion efficiency✓
D)Oxygen enrichment boosting flame temperature
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When bellows are used to introduce air into a furnace, induced draft increases combustion efficiency because it accelerates airflow and removes exhaust gases, maximizing oxygen supply to the fuel and driving up the flame temperature. Therefore, induced draft results, rather than other heat transfer or compression effects, enabling higher temperatures.
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