Anthracite is the hardest coal, burning hot and clean. Anthracite stove, a ton of anthracite, burns anthracite.
It is the most compressed grade, almost pure carbon, and it burns with little smoke and almost no flame, which is why it suited household stoves. It is also the hardest to light, and a fire of it needs a good draught.
1nounanthraciteThe hardest coal, burning hot and clean.
“They filled the cellar with anthracite for the long winter.”
anthracite is a coal.
Greek anthrakitis names a kind of coal, from anthrax, charcoal.
Ancient Greek
ἀνθρακῖτις — a kind of coal
English, today
anthracite
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Via Latin - from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (“a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (“charcoal”). by surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
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