Coke breeze

Description

Lightweight cinder powder produced by burning Coke or Charcoal. Breeze is composed of tiny hollow spheres (cenospheres) produced when the outside of the burning fuel particles are carbonized before the volatile gases can escape. Coke breeze is used as a filler in Breeze concrete.

Synonyms and Related Terms

breeze; cenosphere

Resources and Citations

• J.Winter, "The Characterization of Pigments Based on Carbon" Studies in Conservation, 28:49-66, 1983.

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000