Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Ray cuts is lower, in part because the kilns buy more of the cheaper log slabs -- the cutoff outsides of logs when they are squared by a sawmill into lumber. These, along with the hardwood, are charred in kilns, put through a hammermill and mixed with charred sawdust, coal, limestone, sodium nitrate, borax, wheat paste and steam, which turns the mixture into a slurry that is pressed into briquettes and then put through a drying process...
South Africa's gold and coal mines are in the best of times harsh places where thousands of blacks live in crowded hostels far removed from their homes and families. The mines were closed to journalists last week as a long-threatened strike, the largest in South Africa's history, began. But the walkout was scarcely three days old before stories of trouble started to spread...
...nearly became Southern California's largest and most dangerous charcoal grill. When the cargo vessel Fort Providence sailed into port near Los Angeles, area residents were alarmed to hear that the ship was carrying 54,000 tons of coal close to igniting. Under way from Baton Rouge, La., to Taiwan, the coal began heating up, and its temperature reached 169 degrees...
...week began what they saw as the only solution: unload the cargo and spread it out over 1 1/2 acres to cool. Experts attribute the incendiary quality of the Fort Providence cargo to Louisiana's hot climate and to moist air pockets trapped in the load that kept the coal from cooling. Total cost of snuffing out the near barbecue...
...part of a natural cycle, but scientists suspect that this one may be different. They believe it is magnified by a fundamental change in world climate caused by a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been burning greater quantities of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. One by-product is carbon dioxide, which has entered the atmosphere in ever increasing amounts...