anthracite

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Substitution of lower-grade coals -- of bituminous for anthracite, and of low-grade bituminous for high-grade bituminous coals.

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  1. noun A dense, shiny coal that has a high carbon content and little volatile matter and burns with a clean flame. Also called hard coal.

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  • Northeastern demand for anthracite, the Pennsylvania-mined, hard, lustrous coal that is used for home heating, is so high that Swift's order has been placed on a waiting list. —  Adirondack Daily Enterprise
  • We've gotten anthracite, the cheapest and easier and most high quality coal out of our mines. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • We've EXHAUSTED anthracite, the cheapest and easier and most high quality coal out of our mines. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • It also has huge reserves of oil, uranium, tin, anthracite - or 'smokeless' coal - and a whole range of other minerals. —  MoneyWeek RSS - All
  • And the uniformity of outfits in shades of gray (anthracite, slate, dove, and a metallic zinc) with everything (suit, shirt, tie) matching also suggested the movie's hyper-sophisticated homogeneity. —  Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles
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  1. Probably ultimately from Greek anthrakitis, a kind of coal, from anthrax, anthrak-, charcoal.

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  1. from Greek ἀνθρακίτης, a kind of precious stone, feminine ἀνθρακῑτις, a kind of coal; properly adjective, coal-like; from ἀνθραξ; (ἀνθρακ-), a (burning) coal, charcoal, stone-coal: see anthrax.
 

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