Clinker

Clinker may refer to:

Clinker (boat building), construction method for wooden boats
Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes
Clinker (cement), a kilned then quenched cement product
Clinker brick, rough dark coloured bricks
Clinker Peak, a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada

Clinker may also be used for:

Small rocks that form in some ʻAʻā lava flows
Waste from coal fires

People with the surname Clinker

Humphry Clinker, title character of Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of Boats and Ships by fixing Wooden planks and in the early nineteenth century Clinker is a general name given to waste from industrial processes - particularly those that involve Smelting metals burning Fossil fuels and using a Blacksmith In the manufacture of Portland cement, clinker is the solid material produced by the Cement kiln stage that has sintered into lumps or nodules typically Clinker bricks are Bricks used in the Construction of Buildings In early brick firing kilns the surface of the bricks that were too close to the fire changed Clinker Peak is a Stratovolcano, in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, British Columbia, Canada. Lava is molten rock expelled by a Volcano during an eruption When first expelled from a volcanic vent it is a Liquid at Temperatures The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the Picaresque Novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and

Dictionary

-noun

Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Hardened volcanic lava.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
One who clinks or an item that clinks, hence fetters are also called clinkers.
Clink, derived from clinch, hence one who clinches or that clinches.

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