bituminous

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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

Unlike the bituminous or “soft” coal found in other parts of the state, anthracite does not ignite easily, but once lit it burns hotter and without smoke, due to a high carbon content.

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