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bituminous

[bahy-too-muh-nuhs, -tyoo-, bih-] / baɪˈtu mə nəs, -ˈtju-, bɪ- /


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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

Mine Safety and Health Administration keeps merging regulations for anthracite coal with those for the more volatile and messier bituminous coal, according to Kasa.

From Washington Times Jun. 6, 2015

Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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