Coal bin
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Acoal bin,coal storeorcoal bunkeris a storage container forcoalawaiting use or transportation. This can be either in domestic, commercial or industrial premises, or on a ship orlocomotive tender,or at a coal mine or processing plant.
Domestic coal bunkers are associated with the use of coal in open fires or for solid-fuelcentral heating.Free-standing bunkers were commonly made of wood or concrete and are currently sold in materials including plastic or galvanised metal.[1]Coal bins or bunkers could also form an outhouse[2]or be partly or fully underground.
Coal bins form or formed part ofindustrial plants,[3]and were found onsteam ships.[4]
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[edit]- ^"Coal bunker".The Fireside Shop.Retrieved31 August2016.
- ^"10-year-old boy locked in coal bunker for a year by parents".Telegraph.22 April 2012.
All the houses had the old brick built coal bunkers which became redundant when central heating was installed.
- ^Stracher, Glenn B. (2007).Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World.p. 33.ISBN9780813741185.
... an undetected fire in a coal bunker at a coal-fired plant...
- ^Maltin, Tim (2012).101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic.eBookIt.ISBN9781456608040.
... in the coal bunker between no 5 and no 6 boiler rooms.
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