브리켓 briquette 은 영어로 '벽돌 brick'을 뜻함.
영어 사전을 찾아보니, 원래 뜻은. '미세한 물질을 응집해서 만든 벽돌 모양의 덩어리'임.
단어가 쓰이기 시작한 것은 1883년 경. 아마 이 시절부터 '연탄'과 비슷한 게 사용되기 시작한 모양.
한국 사람들이 난방 재료로 썼던 연탄을 영어로 하면, coal briquette 석탄 브리켓, 혹은 charcoal briqutte '숯' 브리켓이라고 해야겠다.
연탄재를 실어 나르는 청소부 사진. 1980년대까지만 해도 한국 도시, 읍내에서 흔히 볼 수 있었던 광경이었다.
어린시절 동네 친구 아버지도 연탄을 이렇게 실어나르시곤 했었다.
이제 화석연료, 석탄과 연탄은 점점 더 우리 일상에서 사라지겠지만, 연탄은 한국에서도 거의 100년을 넘게 겨울 난방용으로 사용되었다. 인류의 문화사에서 100년은 그렇게 길지 않은 시간이다.
모든 게 다 변화하고, 찰나같다.
a compacted often brick-shaped mass of usually fine material
a charcoal briquette
briquette transitive verb
Example Sentences
Stage 2 restrictions ban all wood, briquette and charcoal fires, typically.
Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2022
At three miles depth beneath the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and Mexico, lies a swath of seafloor named CCZ that contains briquette-sized black nuggets called polymetallic nodules.
Ian Palmer, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Soft tumor tissue had somehow broken out of the hard bone that Olson’s orthopedic surgeon likened to a charcoal briquette.
Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'briquette.'
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A briquette (French: [bʁikɛt]; also spelled briquet) is a compressed block of coal dust[1] or other combustible biomass material
(e.g. charcoal, sawdust, wood chips,[2] peat, or paper) used for fuel and kindling to start a fire.
The term derives from the French word brique, meaning brick.
East-Asian briquettes
See also: Yeontan
Home made charcoal briquettes (called tadon [ja]) were found after charcoal production in Japanese history. In the Edo period, polysaccharide extracted from red algae was widely used as a binder.
After the imports of steam engines in the Meiji period, coal and clay became major ingredients of Japanese briquettes.
These briquettes, rentan [ja] and mametan [ja], were exported to China and Korea. Today, coal briquettes are avoided for their sulfur oxide emission. Charcoal briquettes are still used for traditional or outdoor cooking. Woody flakes such as sawdust or coffee dust are major ingredients of modern mass-consumed briquettes (e.g., Ogatan [ja]).
