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Definition of Caking
1. cake [v] - See also: cake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caking
Literary usage of Caking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute, Ontario Mining Institute (1902)
"caking Properties of Coal.—E. Donath * discusses the origin of coal and its caking
properties. The coals of the main seam at the Liebe-Gottes colliery at ..."
2. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"As non-caking coal rich in carbon yields a much greater weight of carbonaceous
residue than non-caking coal rich in oxygen, it is obvious that, ..."
3. Steam-boiler Economy: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fuel Economy by William Kent (1904)
"caking and Non-caking Coals.—Bituminous coals are sometimes classified as ...
The reason of this difference is not clearly made out, as non-caking coals are ..."
4. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"In other women caking will take place, with intense pain on nursing, ... In all
such cases of pain, lymphangitis and caking, nursing is best suspended, ..."
5. The Coal Mines of the Western Coast of the United States by Watson Andrews Goodyear (1877)
"It is intended to complete this connection during the current year. PUYALLUP caking
COAL. Besides the locality already described where caking coal is known ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"SOULING OR SOUL-caking. When I was a boy, the customs connected with All Souls'
Eve were generally called "Soul-caking;" but now, for the most part, ..."
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