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  • Thumbnail for Lime (material)
    product of coal-seam fires and in altered limestone xenoliths in volcanic ejecta. The International Mineralogical Association recognizes lime as a mineral...
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    lime was normally produced. Typical fuel efficiency was low, with 0.5 tonnes or more of coal being used per tonne of finished lime (15 MJ/kg). Lime production...
    21 KB (2,666 words) - 10:15, 17 May 2024
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    plant. Spinner-style lime spreaders are generally used to spread agricultural lime on fields. Agricultural lime is injected into coal burners at power plants...
    13 KB (1,607 words) - 03:44, 24 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Coal combustion products
    Coal combustion products (CCPs), also called coal combustion wastes (CCWs) or coal combustion residuals (CCRs), are categorized in four groups, each based...
    78 KB (9,165 words) - 17:05, 16 May 2024
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    Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of...
    122 KB (12,171 words) - 15:01, 19 May 2024
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    It has many names including hydrated lime, caustic lime, builders' lime, slaked lime, cal, and pickling lime. Calcium hydroxide is used in many applications...
    21 KB (2,016 words) - 06:14, 9 May 2024
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    Limestone (redirect from Lime stone)
    type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different...
    72 KB (8,512 words) - 12:31, 16 May 2024
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    lime route, and the cement (OPC) route where the latter is used as a source of lime. In the lime route, the composition is fly ash (50%), slaked lime...
    8 KB (1,020 words) - 15:19, 4 February 2024
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    Lime Point. The brick structure for the Lime Point Lighthouse was built in 1883 as a fog-bell signaling station. It was eventually fitted with coal powered...
    5 KB (491 words) - 11:14, 15 April 2023
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    in consequence of the increased facilities afforded to the transit of lime, coal, stone, &c. which abound in its course. This undertaking was designed...
    18 KB (2,251 words) - 13:33, 4 November 2023
  • 19th century. Lime-ash could also be made in coal-fired kilns. In areas where gypsum was common they were known as plaster floors. Lime ash was used on...
    6 KB (815 words) - 18:19, 17 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Buxton lime industry
    Traditional round 'pudding pie' lime kilns were built around Buxton to burn limestone that was layered with wood, coal or coke. The lime powder was drawn from the...
    10 KB (1,237 words) - 22:10, 8 April 2024
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    most-consumed resource. Cements used in construction are usually inorganic, often lime or calcium silicate based, which can be characterized as hydraulic or the...
    80 KB (9,341 words) - 11:16, 13 May 2024
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    to be properly serviced with the necessary coal for firing, as well as the ability to transport the lime away. Interior Kilns lined with firebrick, with...
    6 KB (672 words) - 23:33, 9 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Health and environmental impact of the coal industry
    environmental impact of the coal industry includes issues such as land use, waste management, water and air pollution, caused by the coal mining, processing and...
    57 KB (6,316 words) - 18:47, 19 May 2024
  • "sea coal". This commodity, however, was not suitable for use in the type of domestic hearths then in use and was mainly used by artisans for lime burning...
    82 KB (10,846 words) - 15:44, 12 May 2024
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    between the rivers Oder, Spree, Havel and Elbe, were mass transports of lime, coal and other materials from the limestone mine in nearby Rüdersdorf to Berlin...
    8 KB (941 words) - 04:55, 14 March 2024
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    House. The canal was built around 1800 to transport lime, coal and iron to Newport. There are some lime kilns to the east of the village, and a tramroad...
    8 KB (744 words) - 05:01, 14 August 2023
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    his horizontal rotative retort, his apparatus for purifying coal gas with cream of lime[clarification needed], and for his rotative gas meter and self-acting...
    55 KB (7,016 words) - 19:05, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coal mining in the United Kingdom
    underground. It is probable that the Romans used outcropping coal when working iron or burning lime for building purposes. Evidence to support these theories...
    40 KB (4,357 words) - 23:47, 1 May 2024
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