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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
/ 藞忙n胃r蓹藢sa瑟t; 藢忙n胃r蓹藞s瑟t瑟k /
noun
- a hard jet-black coal that burns slowly with a nonluminous flame giving out intense heat. Fixed carbon content: 86鈥98 per cent; calorific value: 3.14聽脳聽10 7鈥3.63听脳听10 7J/kg Also calledhard coal
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
Derived Forms
- anthracitic, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补苍路迟丑谤补路肠颈迟路颈肠 [an-thr, uh, -, sit, -ik], 补苍路迟丑谤补路肠颈迟路辞耻蝉 [an, -thr, uh, -sahy-t, uh, s], adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of anthracite1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of anthracite1
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Example Sentences
According to ABC Espa帽a, 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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