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clinker

[kling-ker] / ˈklɪŋ kər /




NOUN
cinder
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Conch and Huawei have developed AI tools for more precisely predicting clinker strength, as well as for controlling energy use at the kiln where it is made.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of old clinker bricks and jumbled shingles sits on a quiet street at the edge of L.A. and Culver City.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

"She has made enough ridiculous rulings in this case that nobody should be surprised if she makes another clinker," he told Salon.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2024

"We found the combination of cement clinker and iron oxide is an excellent steelmaking slag because it foams and it flows well," said Dunant.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

By April the berries were in and a post-and- beam shed-barn, and by summer Carl could be seen framing up walls and mortaring clinker brick.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

If chunks of ash — known as clinkers — stick on the bottom, they may need some muscle.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2018

A few clinkers aside, most of the performances were more than competent, if somewhat studied.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2016

The decade also had a few Christmas clinkers, and one is writer-director George Seaton’s shrilly sentimental fable.

From Time Dec. 20, 2011

Despite the refinement and élan in his playing, his recording of Chopin’s 24 études from the early 1930s is, by today’s standards, littered with clinkers.

From New York Times Aug. 12, 2011

“No, nothing's ever lost. We have ways to shake down your clinkers for you.”

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

The clinkered hills, quivering in the west, sank gradually into the heated blur above the plains.

From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout

The material is then in a partially burnt and slightly sintered state, but it is not fully clinkered and would not make Portland cement.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

They express themselves in the form of clinkered holes, excessive smoke, and irregularly fired or sulphured ware.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox

Stars, forsooth!—and, pray, what paltry sun, what irresponsible comet, what pallid, clinkered satellite, might boast a purple splendor such as this?

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell

And it came to pass when his time was up And hell's gates were opened wide That all hell rang, and the clinkered imps sang When the Devil passed Outside.

From Rhymes of a Roughneck by Pat O'Cotter

The clinkering process requires heat and the right combination of oxides, all of which are in used cement, but need to be reactivated.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

Cement is made through a process called clinkering, where limestone and other raw materials are crushed and heated to about 1,450°C in large kilns.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

As far as possible a balance of pressure in the cells during clinkering should be maintained just sufficient to prevent an inrush of cold air through the flues.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

Patent locking fire-bars, to prevent lifting when clinkering, are used in the furnace and have a good life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

The wide clinkering doors are suspended by counterbalance weights and open vertically.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various




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