gas coal

noun

A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.

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Meanings

noungas coal (countable and uncountable, plural gas coals)

plural gas coals

  1. countableuncountableA bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.

    It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.

    1870, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains
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