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adj. - Relating to or resembling a hard compact natural coal of high luster differing from bituminous coal in containing only a small amount of volatile matter and burning with a nearly smokeless flame

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  • Kazakhstan contains Central Asia's largest recoverable coal reserves, with 34.5 billion short tons of mostly anthracitic and bituminous coal.
  • Fourteen years old as near as he could figure, he was a wild mop of black hair handing in a wind-swept mane to his shoulders, and anthracitic eyes.
  • At a little distance from the focus of volcanic action, the Cretaceous coals of southwestern Colorado have been made bituminous and coking, while at the Placer Mountains the...
  • With a view to accelerate the perfect combustion of these coals, sugar, starch, bitumen, and bituminous coals -- substances rich in hydrogen -- were employed, mixed in varying...
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