coke

(noun)

Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel, and formerly as a domestic fuel.

Related Terms

Examples of coke in the following topics:

  • Properties of Phosphorus

    • Calcium phosphate (phosphate rock), mostly mined in Florida and North Africa, can be heated to 1,200-1,500 °C with sand, which is mostly SiO2, and coke (impure carbon) to produce vaporized P4.

  • Oxides

    • A common and cheap reducing agent is carbon in the form of coke.

  • Iron

    • Crude iron metal is produced in blast furnaces where ore is reduced by coke to pig iron, which has a high carbon content.