bituminous

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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

Coal tipples and the soft bituminous coal they handle are more common in Western Pennsylvania, she said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2017

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

However, since soft coal is mainly used in energy generation, “It’s definitely affecting the bituminous region more than the anthracite region,” Stefanko said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2015

Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam