Coke

noun

Word Frequency: 3.8

Definitions

1.nounSolid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

"The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year."

2.verbTo produce coke from coal.

3.verbTo turn into coke.

4.verbTo add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

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