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Excerpt from The English Cyclopedia, Vol. 3: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Arts and Sciences
The quantity of coire now imported is large, but it cannot be quite determined from the Board of Trade returns, in which it is included with jute, and other vegetable substances of the nature of hemp.
Coke, the solid residue obtained by the destructive distillation of coal. It consists almost entirely of carbon, associated with a certain quantity, usually small, of incombustible mineral matter, which is left behind as ash when the coke is burnt.
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