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briquet

American  
[bri-ket] / brɪˈkɛt /

noun

briquetted, briquetting
  1. briquette.


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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was absolutely necessary to give the men some morale; and, mounting the breastwork, I made a cigarette, struck fire with my briquet, and walked up and down, smoking.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

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

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 Herbert M. Wilson

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 Rufus T. (Rufus Tracy) Strohm

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

They include the washing and coking tests of coals, and the briquetting of slack and low-grade coal and culm-bank refuse so as to adapt these fuels for combustion in furnaces, etc.

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 Herbert M. Wilson

After weighing, the materials to be tested are run through the necessary grinding and pulverizing machines and are fed into the briquetting machines, whence the manufactured briquettes are delivered for loading or storage.

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 Herbert M. Wilson

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

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

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

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

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