(n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
(n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.
(n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.
(n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scoria (volcanic cinder) was most effective in excluding roots of crested wheatgrass and streambank wheatgrass.
(2) I carried every single one of these cinder blocks on my back up all those flights of steps.
(3) The volumes of the cinders are much larger than those of fly ash and therefore the fate and impact of PCDDs and PCDFs in dump sites of these cinders should be studied.
(4) His headquarters since 1971 are located in a modest but decent-sized building with interior cinder-block walls plastered with fading photos of famous Democrats.
(5) Determination of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in fly ash and cinders collected from nine municipal incinerators in Japan was made.
(6) Planets caught in one would lose their atmospheres instantly and would be left a burnt cinder, astronomers say.
(7) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
(8) Artificial reefs have been created with cinder blocks or deliberately sunk ships, said Ferrari, “but we’ve never had an artificial reef that resembles a natural reef structure”.
(9) Asked if he felt guilty that other residents had their cars reduced to cinders, the older man said that, if a resident had come out and said it was their car, the group had moved on to another.
(10) In the study presented here, the expression of TNF alpha-mRNA was investigated in macrophages stimulated in vitro with quartz dust, dust from cinders of welding furnaces, and asbestos, using non-radioactive in situ hybridization.
(11) Maybe Branagh is planning a third act in which Cinders decides against marriage to Richard Madden ’s handsome prince after petitioning Bonham Carter to magic her up a source of independent wealth (rather than a pointless carriage that’s only going to turn into a pumpkin at midnight anyway).
(12) When you're 15, Cinderella stories, too, seem hopelessly dated; and to be confronted with Elizabeth, a pantomime Ugly Sister, on the shelf and in drag, waiting for the "baronet-blood", which never came, and Mary, a constant complainer stuck in the shires with a huntin', fishin', shootin' husband, was as undesirable as having to get to know the Cinders who did all the dull jobs and was "only Anne".
(13) For the past three months Bernard Madoff has lived in a bare cell, with cinder-block walls and a shared sink, just two by two and a half metres.
(14) The relation of V(O2) and speed was measured on seven athletes running on a cinder track and an all-weather track.
(15) Today, Sunset Crater national monument protects the massive cinder cone volcano and the surrounding lavascapes.
(16) They thought it was cute to throw cinder blocks at police,” said Batts.
(17) "The commonly used (uranium-based) nuclear reactor isn't a 'perfect stove', and burns only a small proportion of the highest quality fuel, leaving a lot of 'cinder'," a lead researcher told a Shanghai newspaper.
(18) Fly to Fresno Yosemite Airport Stay at Curry Village, within the park , tent cabins from $95 Danny Palmerlee, author of Lonely Planet's guide to Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (£14.99) Volcano biking, Hawaii Volcanoes NP Kilauea volcano has been erupting pretty much constantly since 1983, creating a moonscape of lava fields, smoking craters, cinder cones and steam vents.
(19) It may not know where its journey will end, but the bridge back to April 2010 is in cinders.
(20) The settlement is a dusty cluster of tin-roofed, cinder-block houses next to the airport.
Clinker
Definition:
(n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
(n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
(n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
(n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-five mass% magnesia clinker and 5 mass% dental stone were selected for the main constituents.
(2) While other kids my age went to amusement parks, I'd be sailing on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in a clinker-built ship, learning just how hard it was to row in synch with 11 other people, returning to shore happy and slightly windburned.
(3) The present paper is an overview of the experimental research into the effects of flue magnesite dust in the magnesite industry in which the raw material (magnesite) is processed into refractory magnesite clinker.
(4) A study was conducted to evaluate the level of bronchial responsiveness among workers recently exposed to vanadium pentoxide during periodical removal of ashes and clinker from the boilers of an oil-fired power station.