anthracite
Example Sentences
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Rival steelmaker Arcelormittal Nippon Steel India shipped in 35,000 tonnes of Russian anthracite coal using euros, a customs document dated June 15 showed.
From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2022
The coal here is clean coal, it's anthracite and it's very, very good for filtration.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2021
On April 13, an anthracite gray Volkswagen van pulled into Les Poulières.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021
With increasing heat and pressure, lignite turns to sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, and then, in a process like metamorphism, anthracite.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Little by little the town names along the way began to take on a frank industrial tone—Port Carbon, Minersville, Slatedale—and I realized I was entering the strange, half-forgotten world of Pennsylvania’s anthracite region.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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