Clinker
['klɪŋkə] or ['klɪŋkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a hard brick used as a paving stone.
(verb.) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning.
(verb.) clear out the cinders and clinker from; 'we clinkered the fire frequently'.
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Definition
(n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
(n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
(n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
(n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
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Examples
- Thus the quantity of good clinker obtainable was unfavorably affected. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yes, said Miss Rose; without, however, adding that it was the history of Mr. Humphrey Clinker. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After cooling, the clinker is ground into very fine powder, which is the Portland cement of commerce. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These coarse particles, or clinkers, absorb water very slowly, are practically inert, and have very feeble cementing properties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They must have appeared first as crusts and clinkers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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