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Definition of Anthracite coal
1. Noun. A hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthracite Coal
Literary usage of Anthracite coal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On the anthracite coal and Coal-field of South Wale*. By CH PERKINS. [A communication
ordered by the General Committee to be ]tinted in ..."
2. The Coal-regions of America: Their Topography, Geology, and Development by James Macfarlane (1873)
"In answer to the important question as to the existence of anthracite coal
elsewhere than in Pennsylvania, it may be here stated that, although this ..."
3. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"The volume is a comprehensive study of the combination movement in the anthracite
coal industry. It sets forth the birth, growth, and final attempt of the ..."
4. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"There was no organization in the anthracite coal fields until 1868, when the
Workingmen's Benevolent Association was founded. It succeeded in organizing for ..."
5. History of the Rise and Progress of the Iron Trade of the United States by Benjamin Franklin French (1858)
"Fifthly, The application of anthracite coal in smelting or reducing iron ore,
raw or roasted, but not prepared by a previous separate process of deoxidation ..."
6. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"Semi-anthracite Coal. — This term was employed by Rogers at the same time, and
included those ... anthracite coal. — This coal is black, hard, and brittle, ..."
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