When I was a kid in Parma, one of the chores assigned to me and my brothers was the removing of the “clinkers” from the old coal furnace in the basement of our house, as well as the one in the church ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Most Hawaii people know the difference between pāhoehoe and ‘a‘ā. ‘A’ā is what you say as you walk across the clinkers that make up an ‘a’ā flow, or so the story goes. According to ...

Clinkers pulverized to make cement should be processed right out of the kiln to save the most energy. The environmentally friendly advice is the result of a recent computational study. Making cement ...

The Greeks had a word for it. They called it "onomatopoeia," and they pronounced it AHN-uh-MAH-tuh-PEA-yuh. The word would have made a great college yell. It provides a topic for today's meditation.

HOUSTON - (Jan. 13, 2015) - Making cement is a centuries-old art that has yet to be perfected, according to researchers at Rice University who believe it can be still more efficient. Former Rice ...