"Choke up" Quotes from Famous Books
... combustion necessary to high efficiency. If the coal contains an excessive quantity of sulphur, trouble will result from its harmful action on the metal of the boiler where moisture is present, and because it unites with the ash to form a fusible slag or clinker which will choke up the grate bars and form a solid mass in which large quantities of unconsumed carbon may ... — Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co. |