Clinkers are very troublesome because they often adhere to the stove grate or the lining of the firebox.
They generally form during the burning of an extremely hot fire, but the usual temperature of a kitchen fire does not produce clinkers unless the coal is of a very poor quality.
The grates may have become clogged with ashes or clinkers so that sufficient air could not pass through them to the fire.
Carrying the fire too heavy in some places, causes clinkers to form.
For the purpose of breaking any clinkersthat might form and to shake out all refuse from the grates.
This method has another advantage, in that the first heating is usually sufficient to separate the pure coal from the mineral substances which form clinkers, and most of the clinkers will be deposited at that one point in the grate.
If the fire is not stirred the clinkerscan be lifted out in large masses.
For one thing, it breaks up the clinkers and allows them to run down on the grate bars when they stick and finally warp the bars.
When the grate becomes covered with dead ashes, they should be cautiously but fully removed, and clinkers must be lifted out with the poker from above, care being exercised to cover up the holes with live coals.
Clinkers in front can easily be taken out by hooking the poker over them toward the back of the firebox and pulling them up and to the front.
Dutch clinkers are small, hard paving bricks burned at a high temperature and of a light yellow colour; they are 6 in.
Thoroughly burnt clay or ballast, old bricks, clinkers and cinders, ground to a uniform size and screened from dust, also make excellent substitutes.
But the pillar broke and the basin toppled over, pinning it, across the loins, down on to the clinkers under the edge of the stone lip.
Between the destructor and the chimney a multitubular boiler is placed, which makes steam enough for grinding into sand the clinkers which are the solid residue of the burnt refuse.
Forty shovelfuls of clinkers and twelve of slaked lime make 7 cwt.
A six-celled destructor kiln burns about 42 tons of refuse in twenty-four hours, leaving about one-fourth of its bulk of clinkers and ashes.
Only you see it ainʼt Christian writing; and Mr. Clinkersshake his head at it, and say it come straight from the devil, and his hoof in every line of it.
Clinkers was a familiar, jocular, red–faced fellow, whom his friends were fond of calling “not at all a bad sort.
Not satisfied with this, he went to the Geological Museum, in Jermyn–street, and pored over the specimens, and laid in a stock of carbonic knowledge that would have astonished Clinkers and Jenny.
The clinkers and ashes left after the combustion of the coal, are precipitated into the ash-pit, where the chain turns down over the roller at the extremity of the furnace.
These chaps get like that, and they have to get the clinkers on 'em.
The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur.
Outside, underneath their window, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps crushing into the clinkers by the side of the ties.
Clinkers are made from substances which melt and recombine, forming a different material which is quite hard and does not burn.
Constant attention to the fire prevents clinkers from forming in large masses.
In theclinkers above, where the cooling goes on very rapidly, the lavas formed are semi-transparent and look much like common bottle-glass.
Still, however, the great mass moves on, so that the stream slides over these fallen clinkers or scoriae.
While the door is open, the clinkers which have accumulated above the grate may be removed, as they are much more easily taken off the grate when they are hot.
The accumulation of ashes andclinkers at the bottom of the retort will shift this zone upward and impair the quality of gas.
These clinkers destroy the refractory lining, form rough projections interfering with the downward movement of the fuel, bring about the formation of arches, and reduce the effective area of the retort.
The removal of the ashes and clinkers should be accomplished as infrequently as possible, since opening the doors of the ash-pit and of the combustion-chamber necessarily causes an inward suction of cold air which is harmful.
After the groups of clinkers are firmly fastened in position, a coating consisting of varnish, mixed with any of the chrome greens is applied to all parts of the exposed wood-work.
The corner-pieces in the illustration are composed of clinkers of a light color.
The central group consists of vitrified clinkers from an iron foundry or glass-house.
The handsomest clinkers are to be obtained from glass-houses, as they are composed of more or less glass of different colors.
The clinkers look much more brilliant when touched up here and there with gold or copper bronze.
Robert Clinkers and Polly his wife are driving a first–rate business in coal and coke and riddlings, not highly aristocratic perhaps, but free from all bad debts.
Sometimes the clinkers accumulate and stop the draft, both in the human as well as the iron stove.
When that happens, the sensible thing to do is not to throw in more fuel but to clean out the clinkers first.
Nothing, of course, but the sand and the grass and the shells, the clinkers and the dahlias and the little suspended tin goldfish.
Clear the bottom of the fire pot of all ashes and clinkers so that the grate is covered with clear-burning, red-hot coals, then fill the pot full of fuel.
I'd have used ashes; old clinkers I guess would be best.
Question number three: what is the object of mixing sand or coal ashes or clinkers with clay.
Lumps which might be called grass clinkers were found among the ashes; and these on being properly treated in a kiln produced glass which is described as 'a very good sample of bottle-glass.
Farmers who are unfortunate enough to have their stack-yards burned, might possibly find straw clinkers among the débris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clinkers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
