clinker
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On a recent visit, workers at Conch’s sprawling clinker facility monitored the AI model as it automatically adjusted production in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
The house is wrapped in clinker brick, a term for when clay bricks are set too close to the flames when being fired in a kiln, giving them distorted shapes and colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Bee was built using age-old clinker planking techniques for a co-operative of crofters from Stroma which sits between Orkney and the mainland.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 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
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
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 O'Cotter, Pat
The clinkered hills, quivering in the west, sank gradually into the heated blur above the plains.
From Dragon's blood by Rideout, Henry Milner
Oyster shells put one at a time in a stove that is "clinkered" will clean the bricks entirely.
From Culture and Cooking Art in the Kitchen by Owen, Catherine
Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this day at the head of the clinkered valley.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
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.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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
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
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
I should cut a fine figure, metaphorically, if not arithmetically speaking; whereas my farthing rush-light is now sputtering, clinkering, and guttering to waste, and all because I have not a pair of silver snuffers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
The flues of each furnace are provided with dampers, which are closed during the process of clinkering in order to keep up the heat.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
