Within Bronze Age smelteries, which risk increases due to insufficient furnace draft?

💡 Explanation

Insufficient furnace draft reduces oxygen supply, thus inhibiting complete combustion and metal oxide reduction via chemical equilibrium effects; this increases the concentration of intermediate oxides, thereby leading to incomplete reduction, rather than slag or degradation, because the mechanism is limited reactant.

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