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Definition of Anthracites
1. anthracite [n] - See also: anthracite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthracites
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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