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bituminous coal

A type of coal with a high percentage of volatile matter that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Also called soft coal.

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bituminous coal

(Geological Science) a soft black coal, rich in volatile hydrocarbons, that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Fixed carbon content: 46–86 per cent; calorific value: 1.93 × 10⁷ – 3.63 × 10⁷ J/kg. Also called: soft coal

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bitu′minous coal′

a soft coal rich in volatile hydrocarbons and tarry matter and burning with a yellow, smoky flame.

[1875–80]

bi·tu·mi·nous coal

(bĭ-to͞o′mə-nəs)

A soft type of coal that burns with a smoky, yellow flame. Bituminous coal is the most abundant form of coal, but because of its high sulfur content its use can contribute to air pollution and acid rain. Compare anthracite, lignite.

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Bituminous Coal

Soft coal. It has a high sulfur content, is cheaper than hard coal, and was normally used for cooking and heating when coal rather than wood was burned.

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bituminous coal - rich in tarry hydrocarbons; burns readily with a smoky yellow flame

soft coal

cannel coal - a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame

coal - fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

sea coal - pulverized bituminous coal; used as a foundry facing

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On parting he slipped upon my finger a curiously wrought ring set with a dead-black, lusterless stone, which appeared more like a bit of bituminous coal than the priceless Barsoomian gem which in reality it is.

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The buildings are smoky and blackened, from the use of bituminous coal, but an Englishman is well used to that appearance, and indisposed to quarrel with it.

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You know today, without my telling you, that the Railroad Trust owns or controls the entire anthracite and bituminous coal fields.

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These analyses proved that the coal from Patala Formation in eastern Salt Range is ranked as a high volatile bituminous coal which can be utilized in brick kilns and also can be of tremendous use in electricity generation.

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Some bituminous coal is produced from the Baysun field, also in the southern region of Surkhandarya.

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Sub-bituminous and lignite accounted for 128.8Bnt or 54.3%, while the remaining 108.5Bnt or 45.7% was bituminous coal.

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Westmoreland's coal operations include sub-bituminous and lignite surface coal mining in the Western United States and Canada, an underground bituminous coal mine in Ohio, a char production facility, and a 50% interest in an activated carbon plant.

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The internationally important Welsh iron industry of the early 19th century used bituminous coal as its fuel to make coke to smelt iron ore to pig iron.

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Regular maintenance of your chimney will depend on the fuel you burn - if you burn oil or gas, your chimney should be swept once a year, bituminous coal twice a year, if you burn wood up to four times a year and smokeless coals at least once a year.