On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:44:14 -0500, "
wrote:

On 11/18/2016 9:52 AM, trader_4 wrote:
The Oxford dictionary does not make heating equipment. Show us some
examples of furnace manufacturers that refer to boilers as "furnaces".
Show us some boiler makers that call them furnaces. Show us spec sheets
for home heating equipment where they call a hydronic system a furnace.
Context of the usage is everything. Would you walk into a supply house
and ask for a part for a furnace when it was a hydronic system?
Yeah, you probably would. Almost everyone else here would ask for a
part for a boiler.


Proving you wrong is like shootin' fish in a barrel.

http://www.waterfurnace.com/how-it-works.aspx
Except trader didn't read the article. A "water furnace" is a
water/ground source heat pump.