• Look up clinker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clinker may refer to: Cement clinker, a kilned then quenched cement product Clinker (boat building)...
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    Cement clinker is a solid material produced in the manufacture of portland cement as an intermediary product. Clinker occurs as lumps or nodules, usually...
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    Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive...
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    Clinker-built (also known as lapstrake) is a method of boat building in which the edges of hull planks overlap each other. Where necessary in larger craft...
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    Clinker is a generic name given to waste from industrial processes, particularly those that involve smelting metals, welding, burning fossil fuels and...
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    means. Compared to clinker-built hulls, carvel construction allowed larger ships to be built. This is because the fastenings of a clinker hull took all the...
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    Expansive cements contain, in addition to Portland clinker, expansive clinkers (usually sulfoaluminate clinkers), and are designed to offset the effects of drying...
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    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's...
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    sintering temperature (up to 1450 °C) in a cement kiln; grinding the resulting clinker to make cement (see Cement mill). In the second stage, the rawmix is fed...
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    by heating limestone and clay minerals in a kiln to form clinker, and then grinding the clinker with the addition of several percent (often around 5%) gypsum...
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