[
US
/ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/
]
[ UK /ˈænθɹɐsˌaɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈænθɹɐsˌaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat
How To Use anthracite In A Sentence
- For the deeper shades of blue in the sea I mixed ultramarine with anthracite black to give an approximation to Paynes grey.
- The briquette is a mixture of anthracite coal and charcoal and doesn't need fire lighters. The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia
- Coal miners, in their miners' hats, marched in honor of the man who had settled the anthracite coal strike.
- Work is proceeding on the economic feasibility of making a fuel pellet from commercial waste and anthracite dust.
- The rest of the interior trim is standard save for the anthracite grey instrument dials.
- You also use much scientific language in your poetry: anthracite, barium, beryl, bituminous, brachycephalic.
- The driest and hardest coal is anthracite.
- Peat is an accumulation of virtually unaltered plant material, while anthracite is nearly pure carbon with little trace of the original plant material.
- That fascinating gamut from dove to anthracite, Petra thought wryly. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- Continued compaction by overburden then converts lignite into bituminous coal and finally, anthracite coal.