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

Anthracite, formed by higher temperature and pressure, has a higher carbon content and burns cleaner and hotter than bituminous or “soft” coal.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2015

“He does odd jobs. And he’s an entrepreneur. He’s developing a technology to burn low-grade bituminous coal safely and efficiently.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls