Meaning of coke breeze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. coke dust used as a fuel.
   uncountable
2. A building material composed of cement and breeze; low-grade concrete.
   uncountable

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Examples

“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”

“In addition, some solid, very hard and fine "coke breeze" is also formed.”

“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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