bituminous
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The bituminous crude requires mixing before it can be transported and exported.
From Reuters ● Sep. 25, 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
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
