Anthracite

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  • noun. A dense, shiny coal that has a high carbon content and little volatile matter and burns with a clean flame.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A variety of mineral coal (see coal) containing but little hydrogen, and therefore burning almost without flame.
  • Coal-black: as, the anthracite hawk, Urubitinga anthracina.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.
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  • noun. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals; hard coal.
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  • noun. a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat
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    coal  
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    air-tight  bauxite  bituminous  briquette  coal oil  
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