oil burner, oil furnace-a furnace that burns oil. open-hearth furnace-a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it. register-a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device.. An enclosure in which energy in a nonthermal form is converted to heat, especially such an enclosure in which heat is generated by the combustion of a suitable fuel. 2. An intensely hot place: the furnace of the sun; an attic room that is a furnace in the summer.
The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries. Because Asian Americans total about 5.6% of the entire US population, diversity within the group is often overlooked in media treatment.
More than 60 percent of U.S. Muslims are immigrants, and of those, more than 70 percent are U.S. citizens, according to the Pew data. The Muslim population in the United States, as in Europe, is expected to double by 2030 because of immigration and higher birth rates, according to the Pew survey.t the highest estimates, the percentage of Muslims in the United States would represent about 2 percent of the population. A Pew survey from January 2011 on the future of the global Muslim population shows the Americas have the lowest population of Muslims globally.