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briquet

American  
[bri-ket] / brɪˈkɛt /

noun

briquetted, briquetting
  1. briquette.


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Two R. and D. men studied ways to get the briquet to light and burn evenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four Energy & Materials engineers developed a bonding agent to keep the briquet from crumbling.

From Time Magazine Archive

The so briquet stuck, and today Founder Carol Fox, 51, has no regrets.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Husky Oil Co. asked Little to help it develop a barbecue briquet made of lignite instead of charcoal, Little put eleven men on the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her attention was suddenly arrested by a face above the small steady flame of a briquet.

From The Sisters-In-Law by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The $1 billion plant in Corpus Christi opened in October 2016, with an annual capacity of 2 million tonnes of high-quality hot briquetted iron, or sponge iron, a pre-material used in steel production.

From Reuters Apr. 10, 2022

That’s why Cliffs is investing $830 million in a Toledo, Ohio-based plant that will produce hot briquetted iron for electric-arc furnaces run by firms such as Nucor, Goncalves said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2019

Comparative tests of run-of-mine and briquetted coal on locomotives, including torpedo-boat tests, and some foreign specifications for briquetted fuel, by W. F. M. Goss.

From Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing by Strohm, Rufus T. (Rufus Tracy)

Meanwhile other briquettes from the same lots are subjected to combustion tests for comparison with the same coal not briquetted.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.

Officers are searching the Phurnacite plant - a smokeless fuel briquetting facility that covers 150 acres - in Abercwmboi village, which they expect to take "some time".

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Fuel briquetting investigations, July, 1904, to July, 1912, by C. A. Wright.

From Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing by Strohm, Rufus T. (Rufus Tracy)

In peat condensational changes of this nature are accomplished artificially by the pressure of briquetting machines.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

In this building two briquetting machines are installed, one an English machine of the Johnson type, and the other a German lignite machine of very powerful construction.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.

At another time, I had a briquetting machine for briquetting iron ore.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

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