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coking

Variant of coke

noun

  1. coal from which most of the gases have been removed by heating: it burns with intense heat and little smoke, and is used as an industrial fuel
  2. a solid residue left after the distillation of petroleum or other liquid hydrocarbons

transitive verb, intransitive verb coked, coking

to change into coke

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