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patent fuel en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) Fuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.
The originating tonnage of coal class traffic (that is to say coal, coke and patent fuel) for the whole of British Railways in 1957 was 166,153,300 tons, representing half-a-million tons a day and roughly 60 per cent of the total freight traffic.
1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:
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