coke

UK /kəʊk/ US /koʊk/
noun 8verb 3name 1

Definitions

noun

1

Solid 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.

At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.

verb

1

To produce coke from coal.

2

To turn into coke.

3

To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.

noun

1

Cocaine.

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