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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A place where mined coal is treated by sink-float methods or by froth flotation to remove ash, shale, sulfur, and other unwanted products. The resulting clean coal product is graded to size and regulated for maximumash content. Also called cleaning plant; preparation plant. (references) |
Occupations | Operates equipment to size and wash coal for shipment or further processing: Starts equipment, such as launders, tables, shakers, sizing screens, and conveyors. Regulates flow of coal and water to separate coal from slate, rock, and other foreign material and transfers cleaned and sized coal to loading chutes or storage. Observes equipment, gauges, and indicator lights and adjusts equipment to ensure maximum cleanliness of product. May lubricate and repair equipment and replace parts, using handtools. May test refuse samples to determine coal content, using scales to weigh material precipitated from sample by chemical reaction. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COAL WASHER |
| Specialty definitions using "COAL WASHER": Belknap chloride washer process ♦ feldspar jig ♦ hydrotator ♦ launder washer. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Company houses, coal mining section, with coal washer in center, Purseglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-l-o-r-s-w" | |
-2 letters: acerolas, choleras, chorales. | |
-3 letters: acerola, areolas, carwash, chawers, cholera, cholers, chorale, chorals, choreal, choreas, claroes, clasher, clawers, coalers, escolar, howlers, larches, loaches, oraches, oracles, recoals, roaches, salchow, scalare, scholar, scowler, shoaler, solacer, whalers. | |
-4 letters: ahorse, alohas, arches, arecas, areola, ashlar, ashler, ashore, caesar, cahows, calash, calesa, carles, carols, cashaw, cashew, ceorls, charas, chares. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 41 4C 57 41 53 48 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010011 01001000 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O A L   W A S H E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0041 004C 0057 0041 0053 0048 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374935462573553423952 |
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