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anthracite

[ an-thruh-sahyt ]

noun

  1. a mineral coal containing little of the volatile hydrocarbons and burning almost without flame; hard coal.


anthracite

/ ˈænθrəˌsaɪt; ˌænθrəˈsɪtɪk /

noun

  1. 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 7J/kg Also calledhard coal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

anthracite

/ ăٳə-ī′ /

  1. 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.
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Derived Forms

  • anthracitic, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·ٳ·· [an-thr, uh, -, sit, -ik], ·ٳ··dzܲ [an, -thr, uh, -sahy-t, uh, s], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of anthracite1

1810–15; probably < French < Latin (Pliny) Գٳīپ kind of coal. See anthrac-, -ite 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of anthracite1

C19: from Latin Գٳīٱ type of bloodstone, from Greek Գٳ쾱ŧ coal-like, from anthrax coal, anthrax
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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.

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They grabbed the easel, found crimson and anthracite paint and splattered the colors across the canvas.

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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.

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Rival steelmaker Arcelormittal Nippon Steel India shipped in 35,000 tonnes of Russian anthracite coal using euros, a customs document dated June 15 showed.

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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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