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Anthracitic

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Adjective

1. anthracitic

relating to or resembling anthracite coal

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anthracitic

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noun
a hard jet-black coal that burns slowly with a nonluminous flame giving out intense heat. Fixed carbon content: 86–98 per cent; calorific value: 3.14 × 107–3.63 × 107 J/kg
. Also called: hard coal

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Anthracitic

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noun
a shiny black, hard, metamorphic coal that contains a low percentage of volatile matter and burns with a smokeless flame
also called hard coal see also bituminous coal

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anthracitic

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n.
A dense, shiny coal that has a high carbon content and little volatile matter and burns with a clean flame. Also called hard coal.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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