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anthracite
[an-thruh-sahyt]
noun
a mineral coal containing little of the volatile hydrocarbons and burning almost without flame; hard coal.
anthracite
/ ˈænθrəˌsaɪt, ˌænθrəˈsɪtɪk /
noun
Also called: hard coal.a hard jet-black coal that burns slowly with a nonluminous flame giving out intense heat. Fixed carbon content: 86–98 per cent; calorific value: 3.14 × 10 7 –3.63×10 7 J/kg
anthracite
A hard, shiny coal that has a high carbon content. It is valued as a fuel because it burns with a clean flame and without smoke or odor, but it is much less abundant than bituminous coal.
Compare bituminous coal lignite
Other 51Թ Forms
- anthracitic adjective
- anthracitous adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of anthracite1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of anthracite1
Example Sentences
According to ABC España, the site had been a major mine before its closure in 2018, and had since been intermittently used by private companies to extract the mineral anthracite.
They grabbed the easel, found crimson and anthracite paint and splattered the colors across the canvas.
Born in 1908, the oldest son of Lithuanian immigrants, my father started working as a breaker boy in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania when he was 6 years old.
Rival steelmaker Arcelormittal Nippon Steel India shipped in 35,000 tonnes of Russian anthracite coal using euros, a customs document dated June 15 showed.
The colliery is the only producer of high-grade anthracite in western Europe and supplies the nearby Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot.
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