(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.
Combustion
Definition:
(n.) The state of burning.
(n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
(n.) Violent agitation; confusion; tumult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(2) Glucose, osmotic pressure, packed cell volume, PFC by combustion and volatilization were also measured in blood samples.
(3) N-heterocyclic aromatics are environmentally important carcinogenic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of organic material.
(4) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(5) Combustion-product toxicity of perfluorinated polymers in small-scale tests varied markedly under various exposure conditions.
(6) Although few relationships among combustion parameters and emissions were uncovered, patterns of emissions were evident, suggesting commonality and relationships among the waste stream constituents and emissions.
(7) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
(8) Some compounds derived from tobacco combustion can be induce a response of secretory immune system, because antigen penetration is by respiratory tract epithelium, with IgA antibodies synthesis and immune complex (IC) generation.
(9) Waste products from coal combustion have the highest potential risk among the fossil fuel alternatives.
(10) Bicyclic phosphorus esters (BCP) originating from the combustion of fire-retardant polyurethane foam containing phosphorus are highly toxic compounds and potent antagonists of GABA-ergic receptors.
(11) Firefighters are routinely exposed to a wide variety of combustion products.
(12) Combustion gas drying had no effect for the larger PAHs such as benzo(a)pyrene but caused mean increases of between 41% and 126% for fluoranthene, pyrene and chrysene.
(13) A wet combustion method for the carbon determination was developed.
(14) The design-specified operating temperature was 800 degrees C in the primary combustion chamber and 1000 degrees C in the secondary chamber.
(15) Fullerenes C60 and C70, generated by combustion, have been shown previously to be produced in controlled laminar flames accompanied by other compounds having fullerene-like characteristics.
(16) There is growing concern over the detrimental health effects to firefighters produced by exposure to combustion byproducts of burning materials.
(17) Residential wood combustion accounted for 75% of the exposure to particle associated organics, but only 20% of the estimated cancer risk.
(18) Evidence for the atmospheric formation of nitro-PAH has come only recently, from observations that 2-nitropyrene (2-NP) and 2-nitrofluoranthene (2-NF) neither of which has been reported to be emitted from combustion sources, are among the major nitro-PAH present in ambient air.
(19) The combustion gases of cotton, polypropylene, acrylic, flame retardant (F.R.)
(20) Products of incomplete combustion are identified as a major source of carcinogenic risk in urban areas, especially those from small non-industrial sources.