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Anthracite   /ˈænθrəsˌaɪt/   Listen
Anthracite

noun
1.
A hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat.  Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal.



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"Anthracite" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the coal shipped from the anthracite districts in Pennsylvania was transported to Philadelphia and New York where it was consumed or carried coastwise to points along the Atlantic seaboard. The movement to Eastern points continued to constitute the largest part of the anthracite trade after 1860, but a trade ...
— Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States - 1789-1900 • T.W. van Mettre

... The Scotch blood, so slow to kindle like a mass of cold anthracite, so terrible with heat to the last ashes, was burning in him now ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen

... wrong to suppose, says the Coal Control Department, that anthracite is injurious to health. The little ones all declare that its flavour compares favourably ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919 • Various

... centuries, would keep the sun's rate of emission for considerably less than 1/1,000 part of a second. POUILLET estimated the quantity of heat emitted by the sun per hour to be equal to the supply of a layer of anthracite coal ten feet thick, spread over the whole surface ...
— New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces • Henry Raymond Rogers

... cover sixty-five thousand acres; the coal is a high grade bituminous, fit for steam and coking purposes. There are also some veins of anthracite. I consider the Matanuska the best and most important coal yet discovered in Alaska, and with the Bering coal, which is similar though more broken, these fields should supply the United States for centuries ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson


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