An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking, or drying of a substance,[1] and most commonly used for cooking. Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose ovens used in pottery and metalworking, respectively.
Applications:
- Electronics testing
- Burn-in test for detecting early failures in manufactured integrated circuits
- Solder strength testing in circuit boards
- Accelerated simulations to measure prolonged product use
- Curing to catalyze a chemical reaction and alter the chemical nature of advanced polymers
- Forensic labs use specially configured vacuum ovens as fingerprint development chambers
- Biological laboratories employ gravity convection ovens for removal of microbiological contaminants in labware and vacuum ovens for adhering substrates to the
- Environmental laboratories dry specimens in laboratory ovens, weighing the samples before and after drying, to determine the moisture content of the sample. Gravity convection and forced-air ovens are used for these types of processes