Editing Kiln (section)

== Uses of kilns ==
[[Pit fired pottery]] was produced for thousands of years before the earliest known kiln, which dates to around 6000 [[Before Common Era|BCE]], and was found at the [[Yarim Tepe]] site in modern [[Iraq]].<ref name="Bienkowski">{{cite book|author1=Piotr Bienkowski|author2=Alan Millard|title=Dictionary of the Ancient Near East|date=15 April 2010|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-2115-2|page=233}}</ref> [[Neolithic]] kilns were able to produce temperatures greater than 900&nbsp;°C (1652&nbsp;°F).<ref name="IIIDorn2006">James E. McClellan III; Harold Dorn. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aJgp94zNwNQC Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction]''. JHU Press; 14 April 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-8018-8360-6}}. p. 21.</ref>
Uses include:
*[[Annealing (glass)|Annealing]], fusing and deforming [[glass]], or fusing metallic oxide paints to the surface of glass
*Heat treatment for metallic workpieces
*[[Ceramics]]
*[[Brickworks]]
*Melting metal for casting
*[[Calcination]] of ore in a [[rotary kiln]] prior to [[smelting]]
*Pyrolysis of chemical materials
*Heating [[limestone]] with clay in the manufacture of [[Portland cement]], the [[cement kiln]]
*Heating limestone to make [[quicklime]] or [[calcium oxide]], the [[lime kiln]]
*Heating gypsum to make [[plaster of Paris]]
*For [[cremation]] (at high temperature)
*Drying of [[tobacco]] leaves
*Drying [[malt house|malted barley]] for [[brewing]] and other [[Ethanol fermentation|fermentation]]s
*Drying [[hops]] for brewing (known as a [[Oast house|hop kiln or oast house]])
*Drying [[Maize|corn]] (grain) before grinding or storage, sometimes called a corn kiln, corn drying kiln<ref>{{Cite book|title=Past Times, Changing Fortunes. Proceedings of a public seminar on archaeological discoveries on national road schemes. ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY, Monograph Series No.8|last=Conran|display-authors=etal|first=Sheelagh|publisher=Transport Infrastructure Ireland|year=2011|isbn=9780956418050|location=Dublin|pages=73–84}}</ref>
*[[wood drying|Drying]] [[green wood|green]] [[lumber]] so it can be used immediately
*Drying [[wood]] for use as firewood
*Heating wood to the point of [[pyrolysis]] to produce [[charcoal]]
*Extracting [[pine tar]] from pine tree logs or roots