bituminous
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The bituminous crude requires mixing before it can be transported and exported.
From Reuters ● Sep. 25, 2021
In 1920, a typical miner in the United States extracted an average of 4 tons of bituminous coal per day.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2020
The game was born out of distinctly American forms of machinery, from Walter Camp’s New Haven Clock Company to the bituminous coal and mill towns of Pennsylvania.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2020
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
Named for the coalfields that had been found alongside the nearby Bluestone River, the Bluefields sat amid some of the largest deposits of bituminous coal in the world.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
