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coking

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coking [′kokĀ·iŋ]
(chemical engineering)
Destructive distillation of coal to make coke
A process for thermally converting the heavy residual bottoms of crude oil entirely to lower-boiling petroleum products and by-product petroleum coke.


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Under open cut and underground operation, about 10 million tons of coking coal and thermal coal are produced and supplied for world major steel companies and electric power companies.
September 20-21--4th China International Coking Technology and Coke Market Congress 2006, Park View Wuzhou, Beijing, China.
The price of coking coal, which is used to make steel, almost doubled in fiscal 2005 to $120 a ton.
 
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