coke breeze

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coke breeze (uncountable)

  1. coke dust used as a fuel.
    • 1892 August 31, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 10, page 686:
      At some gasworks the coke-breeze is made into bricks to be used for generating steam or for heating the retort furnaces, but if the breeze is worth 6s. to 7s. per ton, and its conversion into "briquettes" costs about the same sum, coal at 15s. per ton would be preferable, as the manufacture of "briquettes" requires expensive machinery
    • 1992, Nancy J. Sell, Industrial Pollution Control: Issues and Techniques, page 127:
      In addition, some solid, very hard and fine "coke breeze" is also formed.
  2. A building material composed of cement and breeze; low-grade concrete.
    • 1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 308:
      The cook-house was like a cathedral's nave, aisles being divided off by the pipes of stoves. The floor was of coke-brise, shining under french polish and turpentine.

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