Definition of Anthracites

1. Noun. (plural of anthracite) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anthracites

1. anthracite [n] - See also: anthracite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthracites

anthozoa
anthozoan
anthozoans
anthozoic
anthra-
anthracaemia
anthracene
anthracenes
anthracenyl
anthraces
anthracic
anthraciferous
anthracin
anthracite
anthracite coal
anthracites (current term)
anthracitic
anthracnose
anthracnoses
anthraco-
anthracoid
anthracomancy
anthracometer
anthracometers
anthraconite
anthraconites
anthracosilicosis
anthracosis
anthracothere
anthracotheres

Literary usage of Anthracites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"anthracites do not require "slicing" and should be disturbed only when cleaning is necessary. Nearly all anthracites, with some unimportant exceptions, ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1886)
"Among housekeepers, who are the most numerous class of consumers, though on the smallest scale, distinction is seldom recognized among these anthracites. ..."

3. Two Reports: On the Coal Lands, Mines and Improvements of the Dauphin and by Richard Cowling Taylor (1840)
"In the same proportion, and even more remarkably, do the American anthracites exceed in density those of which we have any knowledge in Europe. ..."

4. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"... and to which he gives the name of " anthracites."86 It is a native of Africa, he says, and is of a black colour. When rubbed upon a water-whetstone, ..."

5. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1829)
"... contains anthracites, a combustible substance, which may be seen in the neighbourhood of ... anthracites ..."

6. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1873)
"Professor Huxley and I, between us, have had 150 sections cut of coals and anthracites from various parts of the world. We have had specimens from ..."

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