gas coal

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Noun

gas coal (countable and uncountable, plural gas coals)

  1. A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.
    • 1870, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains:
      It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.

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