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  2. Ember - Wikipedia

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    An ember, also called a hot coal, is a hot lump of smouldering solid fuel, typically glowing, composed of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material. Embers (hot coals) can exist within, remain after, or sometimes precede, a fire. Embers are, in some cases, as hot as the fire which created them.

  3. Firewalking - Wikipedia

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    Firewalking in Sri Lanka. Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones. It has been practiced by many people and cultures in many parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating from Iron Age India c. 1200 BCE.

  4. Hot Coal, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Hot Coal or Hotcoal was an unincorporated community and coal town located along the Winding Gulf Creek in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Originally, it was named Patterson and later acquired the name Hot Coal. It was the next community past Big Stick on County Route 3/2.

  5. Centralia mine fire - Wikipedia

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    The borough, by law, was responsible for installing a fire-resistant clay barrier between each layer of trash in the landfill, but fell behind schedule, leaving the barrier incomplete. This allowed the hot coals to penetrate the vein of coal underneath the pit, lighting the subsequent subterranean fire. In addition to the council minutes ...

  6. Coal - Wikipedia

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    Refined coal is the product of a coal-upgrading technology that removes moisture and certain pollutants from lower-rank coals such as sub-bituminous and lignite (brown) coals. It is one form of several precombustion treatments and processes for coal that alter coal's characteristics before it is burned.

  7. Coke (fuel) - Wikipedia

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    These were the invention of the hot blast in iron-smelting and the introduction of the beehive coke oven. The use of a blast of hot air, instead of cold air, in the smelting furnace was first introduced by Neilson in Scotland in 1828. [9] The hearth process of making coke from coal is a very lengthy process. [citation needed]

  8. Bed warmer - Wikipedia

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    Besides the risk of fire, it was recognized that the fumes from the embers were noxious. A doctor advised his readers in a c.1790 publication to avoid bed warmers, or, if needed, replace the embers with hot sand. [3] An alternative to the bed warmer was the "bed wagon" (moine in French and monaco in Italian, both meaning "monk"). It consisted ...

  9. Firebox (steam engine) - Wikipedia

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    If the engine burns solid fuel, like wood or coal, there is a grate covering most of the bottom of the firebox to hold the fire. An ashpan, mounted underneath the firebox and below the grates, catches and collects hot embers, ashes, and other solid combustion waste as it falls through the grates.