clinker
- noun
- /ˈklɪŋkər/
- Specialized
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clinker
- She picked it up, tidied, brushed up the clinker and coal dust from the grate, and hung the kettle back where it belonged.
But since this clinker is so hard to grind down, they just considered it waste.
- But since this clinker is so hard to grind down, they just considered it waste.
Examples
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"He showed them how to prep the firebed, removing all unburnable 'clinkers,' he called them; how to separate the 'coke' from the 'green' coal.
Fiction book (2001) -
When cleaning the stove, she noticed a significant amount of clinker that had formed from the coal.
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But since this clinker is so hard to grind down, they just considered it waste.
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Andrin has developed equipment for extracting metals from the clinker.
Academic text (2000) -
However, incinerating household waste creates fly ash and solid residues, or clinker.
Academic text (2000) -
Some were chalky, some gray as clinkers, some swollen and dark like overripe eggplants.
Fiction book (2001) -
These metals are worth recovering because they have a market value, and after they are extracted, the clinker can be used as a construction aggregate, explained Marc Deplancq, a manager at Andrin, based in Villers-la-Montagne in Lorraine.
Academic text (2000) -
If fly ash is a troublesome by-product of incineration, the clinker represents an economic opportunity, containing about 14 percent ferrous metals and one percent nonferrous, such as copper, aluminum, and lead.
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The workers removed the clinker from the furnace after a long day of crafting metal.
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Clinker is often found at the bottom of fireplaces, where it accumulates after the wood burns.
Synonyms
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A small piece of partly burned wood or coal that is still hot
Compounds
- Specialized
A light concrete block used for building, made from waste from burned coal instead of stone
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Etymology
Clinker for the hard mass left after burning comes from the same old word klinker, meaning a hard, fused piece like a small tile; after coal or wood burns, it can leave hard lumps that look like tiny burned bricks. A helpful way to remember is to think of these lumps as 'burned bricks', which is why a clinker is the hard, incombustible mass left after a fire.