(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.
Netherlands
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(3) In the Netherlands, researchers studied the medical records of and followed-up on 151 women of advanced maternal age (at least 36 years old) who underwent amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and elected to terminate the pregnancy due to an abnormal genetic finding (105 and 46 women, respectively) at Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt between January 1980 and December 1989.
(4) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(5) In consequence of the findings the Netherlands Ministry for Housing, Physical Planning and Environment appropriated money to cleanup contaminated gardens.
(6) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(7) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
(8) During the last ten years the stock of pigs in the Netherlands has doubled.
(9) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
(10) A cross-sectional study of 315 animal feed workers was undertaken in 14 animal feed mills in the Netherlands.
(11) It can be concluded that benzimidazoleresistance of cyathostomes is very common and widespread in the Netherlands.
(12) Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said.
(13) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
(14) Also in the three title club is the current Swansea manger, Michael Laudrup (Italy, Spain and the Netherlands) and Ruud van Nistelrooy (England, Spain and the Netherlands).
(15) Britain's railway was being run at a cost 40% higher than in four comparable countries (France, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands).
(16) National bans on commercial trading in seal products are already in place in 30 countries including the US, the Netherlands and Italy.
(17) However, that doesn't mean Radcliffe is absent from Twitter or Facebook – a brief search reveals dozen of unofficial fan club accounts offering news about the star, from the Netherlands to Thailand to Brazil, with tens of thousands of followers.
(18) At the time (1973) there was no generally accepted opinion in The Netherlands concerning the extension of the current treatment.
(19) The data of 764 patients, registered with the Netherlands Committee for Testicular Tumors during the 1971-1978 period, were analyzed.
(20) We should strip our own national anthem back, and replace the lyrics with our own best-known meaningless word – “oi!” Unless of course Big Liz turns up, and then we can stick in those other words – but she’s not going to, is she?” Netherlands – Tinchy Stryder Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tinchy Stryder has had two UK No1 singles, Number 1 and Never Leave You.