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Abbreviation of anthracite. [A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.]
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Ivory black; animal charcoal.
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(chemistry) A very absorbent form of finely powdered carbon; used in purifying gases, and as an antidote for many poisons.
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A mineral hydrocarbon, mainly octatriacontane, found in some coal seams
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(chemistry, obsolete) charcoal prepared for making gunpowder
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A form of resinite found in New Zealand coal seams.
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A fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an adsorbent and disinfectant.
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A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
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A carbonaceous substance resembling anthracite.
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Any automotive oil that is synthesized, as opposed to being petroleum-based.
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Charcoal that is used as a soil conditioner.
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(obsolete) Smeared with bitumen.
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(countable) A type or grade of bituminous coal.
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An argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen.
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Elemental carbon in the form of very fine graphite particulates, a major component of soot.
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A mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter.
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(now historical) A type of polish made from graphite, used for kitchen cleaning and blackening grates.
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(geology) A dark, muddy rock, rich in sulfides and organic material.
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(geology, oceanography) A kind of hydrothermal vent found on the seabed, emitting clouds of black material.
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To cover, treat or polish with graphite
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Coal that burns without a flame; anthracite coal.
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A preparation containing carbonized bone, used as a pigment and a filtering medium.
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An oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives.
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Alternative form of bone black [A preparation containing carbonized bone, used as a pigment and a filtering medium.]
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(mineralogy) A kind of brown lignite.
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A mixture of charcoal, clay, etc. used in smelting.
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(US) small-sized anthracite coal
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A bituminous coal which softens and becomes pasty or semiviscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish-black, cellular mass of coke is left.
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Alternative form of cannel coal [cannel (coal)]
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A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
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A graphitized form of carbon black
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An oily, water-insoluble, flammable, dark brown coal tar mixture, formerly used to preserve wooden structures.
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A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
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(chemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber like polymers and rubber. It helps the polymers resist deterioration by ultraviolet rays.
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A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.
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(countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
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Soft coal that breaks off easily into small, irregular cubes with a shining luster.
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(dated) coke (a coked version of coal, that has been cleaned of many of its impurities, making it acceptable for use in steel-making and other uses needing cleaner coal)
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(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
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A nodule of plant material permeated with minerals found mostly in bituminous and anthracite coal seams
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The pyrites in the coal-measures.
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A fossil plant of the carboniferous strata.
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(geology) The measure or degree of the progressive coalification (organic metamorphism) of a coal, often expressed in terms of vitrinite reflectance.
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A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicated soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of very many products.
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The smoke from burning coal.
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Alternative spelling of coal tar [A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicated soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of very many products.]
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Alternative form of coal ball [A nodule of plant material permeated with minerals found mostly in bituminous and anthracite coal seams]
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(UK, trademark) a form of coke that is a smokeless fuel, used as an alternative to coal
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Alternative form of coal tar [A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicated soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of very many products.]
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(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
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Coke dust used as a fuel.
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A form of coal gas obtained as a byproduct of the manufacture of coke
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An industrial plant for processing coke.
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Bituminous coal which is suitable for making into coke, for example for use in steel manufacture.
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Resembling or containing coke (coal residue).
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Obsolete spelling of coal [(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.]
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A fraction of coal tar containing cresols.
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A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
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anthracite, especially when found in small masses
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Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
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A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.
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A factory where coal is converted to coal gas and coke.
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(mineralogy) Any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite
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A bitumen-impregnated rock found in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.
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Anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous soft coal.
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A form of carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
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A black carbonaceous substance, believed to be derived from a fluid bitumen which polymerized after filling a vein.
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Oxidized organic material or fossilized charcoal, found as tiny flakes within sedimentary rocks.
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(historical) A black powder, originally made from burnt ivory, later from bone (i.e. boneblack).
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A fossil resin, found in bituminous coal, that becomes soft and sticky when heated.
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(mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
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A compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; formerly used as an insulating material in telegraphy.
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A kerosene dispersion of carbon black for spraying tires before vulcanization to obtain high gloss and to facilitate removal from the mold.
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A low-grade, brownish-black coal.
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A mixture of slaked lime in water.
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The finely-ground and macerated remains found in coal deposits.
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A component of coal or oil shale.
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(geology) A gray to black oil shale of marine origin in which the chiefmain organic components are lamalginite and bituminite derived from marine phytoplankton, with varied admixtures of bitumen, telalginite and vitrinite
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(geology) A bituminous substance found in masses in the brown coal of Zweifelsruth, Bohemia, former Czechoslovakia.
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The type of coal used for the making of steel.
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An impure carbon used as a pigment.
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coal coming from the ground, as opposed to charcoal
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A soft earthy mineral, of a brownish colour, used in crayon painting.
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A sort of steel found where a burning coal seam has reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
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An insulating material consisting of the impure residuum obtained in the distillation of paraffin.
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An empyreumatic oil obtained by subjecting a brick soaked in oil to distillation at a high temperature; formerly used in medicine and by lapidaries.
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A mixture of mud and paraffin used in thermotherapy.
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(geology, obsolete) Channel coal.
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(UK, Scotland, dated) cannel coal
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Alternative form of pet coke
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A waste product in the manufacture of TNT.
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Dried dung of buffalo or cattle.
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An amorphous fossilized petroleum mineraloid.
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(obsolete, geology) A resinous form of asphalt
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(extractive metallurgy) A mixture of solid and metallic oxide-bearing impurities that is a waste product of bauxite refinement.
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A form of amber occurring in coal seams.
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(mineralogy) Any of various resins, similar in appearance to amber, associated with brown coal.
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Alternative form of seacoal [Coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.]
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And the change came fast. In 1570 there was still little sign of any major divergence from the traditional use of wood as fuel. Less than forty years later, in 1607, a case brought by the Crown in the Star Chamber stated as fact that ‘sea coal’ — a name for the coal that arrived in London by ship from Newcastle — was ‘the ordinary and usual fuel … almost everywhere in every man's house’. A single generation had made the switch.
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Alternative spelling of semicoke [Any of a range of products intermediate in composition and consistency between coke and pitch formed by the incomplete carbonization of coal]
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Coal that is intermediate between anthracite and semibituminous coal.
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Any of a range of products intermediate in composition and consistency between coke and pitch formed by the incomplete carbonization of coal
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Bituminous coal, as distinguished from hard coal (anthracite).
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Bone charcoal, used as bleaching material or in the purification of sugar.
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Mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal
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A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
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A variety of coal, derived from colonial algae, that looks like carbonaceous shale
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A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.
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One of the primary components of coals and most sedimentary kerogens, with a shiny appearance resembling glass.
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(dated) water that is being used to generate power
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tar produced by destructive distillation of wood
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A particulate remnant of carbon released in the combustion of oil or coal.
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(archaic) Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.
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