Anthracite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dense, shiny coal that has a high carbon content and little volatile matter and burns with a clean flame. Also called hard coal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals; hard coal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.
  • n. See Anthracite.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A variety of mineral coal (see coal) containing but little hydrogen, and therefore burning almost without flame.
  • Coal-black: as, the anthracite hawk, Urubitinga anthracina.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat
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    coal   
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