WordNet
n. a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat [syn: anthracite, hard coal]
Usage examples of "anthracite coal".
Philip took from his pocket a map of the anthracite coal region, and pointed out the position of the Ilium mountain which he had begun to tunnel.
As early as 1839, a Gowan & Marx (4-4-0, 11 tons, 9 tons on drivers, driving wheels 42' diameter, cylinders 12 1/8' x 18,' anthracite coal burner) hauled a train of 101 loaded four-wheeled cars, weighing a total of 423 tons, from Reading to Philadelphia at average speed of 9.
When the government prohibited the use of anthracite coal in steam locomotives during World War I, Phoebe was retired, but she reappeared in white military garb during World War II to dramatize the Lackawanna's contributions to the effort.
His application of the hot blast to anthracite coal, after a process invented by him and adopted by the Messrs.
Before the hot blast was introduced, anthracite coal would not act as fuel in the blast-furnace.
Among other things he discovered an Indian arrowhead, undoubtedly American and a lump of anthracite coal of the same type that exists in Rhode Island.
But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
It had been absolutely necessary for her to provide herself with warm bedclothes, and to add to the store of coals by purchasing anthracite coal, which is almost smokeless.
The accompanying picture represents a section of the anthracite coal-measures of Pennsylvania.
Allen was big, tough, with the thin-lipped features of an Arab, the skin color of a chunk of good anthracite coal.
He walked by my side very calm, glancing here and there, and once turned his head to look after a Sidiboy fireman in a cutaway coat and yellowish trousers, whose black face had silky gleams like a lump of anthracite coal.
There are immense anthracite coal-fields at the head of the gulf not far from Sari, and the railway will tap these.