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patent fuel

patent fuel noun: fuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.

Noun

patent fuel (countable and uncountable, plural patent fuels)

  1. Fuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.
    • The originating tonnage of coal class traffic (that is to say coal, coke and patent fuel) for the whole of British Railways in 1957 was 166,153,300 tons, representing half-a-million tons a day and roughly 60 per cent of the total freight traffic.1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272

Forms of patent fuel

pluralpatent fuels

Questions about patent fuel

What does patent fuel mean?
Patent fuel means fuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.
What part of speech is patent fuel?
Patent fuel is a noun.
What is the plural of patent fuel?
The plural of patent fuel is patent fuels.

Words near patent fuel in the dictionary

  1. patency
  2. patens
  3. patent
  4. patent ambush
  5. patent ambushes
  6. patent fuel
  7. patent fuels
  8. patent hammer
  9. patent hammers
  10. patent inside
  11. patent insides

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