Clinker
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Clinker may refer to:
  • Clinker (boat building)
    Clinker (boat building)
    Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and, in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each other so that the planks overlap along their edges. The overlapping joint is called a land. In any but a very small boat, the individual planks...

    , 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 tuyère...

    , waste from industrial processes
  • Clinker (cement)
    Clinker (cement)
    thumb|200px|right|Typical clinker nodulesthumb|200px|right|Hot clinkerIn the manufacture of Portland cement, clinker is lumps or nodules, usually 3-25 mm in diameter, produced by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate during the cement kiln stage.-Uses:...

    , a kilned then quenched cement product
  • Clinker brick
    Clinker brick
    Clinker bricks are partially vitrified brick stones used in the construction of buildings.Clinkers are burnt under temperatures so high that the pores of the fuel property are closed by the beginning sinter process. Thus they 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
  • Clinkers (confectionary), a chocolate coated candy in Australia
  • Gary James Joynes, aka Clinker
    Clinker (sound artist)
    Clinker is a sound artist, composer, and visual artist from Edmonton, Canada. Recent work includes the live cinema piece On the Other Side... Clinker (Gary James Joynes) is a sound artist, composer, and visual artist from Edmonton, Canada. Recent work includes the live cinema piece On the Other...



Clinker may also be used for:
  • Small rocks that form in some ʻAʻā lava flows
  • Waste from coal fires

People with the surname Clinker

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