Coalpit: alternatives and connections

An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radic…

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use i…

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; a…

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

Coal-black; very black.

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…

To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins

A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…

Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.