Which risk significantly increased as early Bronze Age furnaces scaled up their production capacity?

💡 Explanation

Larger bellows were needed to supply air, and uneven airflow with higher throughput risked that insufficient oxygen reached parts of the ore to fully react via oxidation-reduction because adequate mixing was difficult. Therefore, unreduced ore particles remained, rather than uniform mixtures.

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