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  Clinker may refer to:

  • Clinker (boat building)
    Clinker (boat building)

    Clinker boat building is a method of constructing hull s of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and, in the early nineteenth century, Wrought iron plates to each other so that the planks overlap along their edges....
    , construction method for wooden boats
  • Clinker (waste)
    Clinker (waste)

    Clinker is a general name given to waste from industrial processes ? particularly those that involve smelting metals, burning fossil fuels and using a blacksmith's forge which will usually result in a large buildup of clinker around the tuyere....
    , waste from industrial processes
  • Clinker (cement)
    Clinker (cement)

    In the manufacture of Portland cement, clinker is the solid material produced by the cement kiln stage that has sintering into lumps or nodules, typically of diameter 3-25 mm....
    , a kilned then quenched cement product
  • Clinker brick
    Clinker brick

    Clinker bricks are partially vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. The clinkers are considerably denser and therefore heavier than regular bricks....
    , rough dark coloured bricks
  • Clinker Peak
    Clinker Peak

    Clinker Peak is a stratovolcano, in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the west shoulder of Mount Price on the west side of Garibaldi Lake....
    , a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada


Clinker may also be used for:
  • Small rocks that form in some ?A?a lava
    Lava

    Lava is molten Rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. When first expelled from a volcanic vent, it is a liquid at temperatures from 700 ?C to 1,200 ?C ....
     flows
  • Waste from coal fires
    Coal

    Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....


People with the surname Clinker

  • Humphry Clinker, title character of Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker