bituminous
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Last year, the Mitchell plant burned about 2.5 million tons of bituminous coal.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
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
Christmas 1958 wasn’t a white one, but it was bitterly cold, no problem in a town sitting on a billion tons of the finest bituminous coal in the world.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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