It was also stated that, as during the lapse of time the transformation becomes more complete, the peat is changed in succession to lignite, bituminous coal, anthracite, and graphite.
Bituminous coal is the fuel which runs the factories, railways and steamships of the world.
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal.
There are great beds of bituminous coal in the South, but only in West Virginia and Alabama is the production really important, though Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia produce appreciable quantities.
The principal reserves of bituminous coal occur in the same provinces, but important additional reserves are known in Texas, in North and South Carolina, and in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast provinces.
The next stage in coal formation is bituminous coal.
When wood or bituminous coal is used, perforated metal linings are put in the fire-box, and the result is the burning of smoke and gases that otherwise would pass into the chimney.
Grates for bituminous coal should have a flue nearly as deep as the grate; and the bars should be round and not close together.
It is distinguished for the salines upon its banks, for its exhaustless beds of bituminous coal, for the fertility of the soil, and for a singularly-formed eminence among the bluffs of the Mississippi, a few miles from its mouth.
In these bluffs lies an exhaustless bed of bituminous coal: vast quantities have been transported to St. Louis, and for this purpose principally is the railway to the river designed.
Bituminous coal abounds in all the hills around Pittsburg, and over most parts of Western Pennsylvania.
It has not the heating power of bituminous coal, but it is greatly superior to many of the lignitic coals.
It is a good seam of bituminous coal, of the same character with the Kirke coal.
Unfortunately, we have no settled nomenclature for the varieties of coal, excepting the broad names lignite or brown coal, bituminous coal, and anthracite.
Cannel coal is seldom used for steam coal, though it is sometimes mixed with semi-bituminous coal where an increased economy at high rates of combustion is desired.
Semi-bituminous coal is softer than anthracite, contains more volatile hydrocarbons, kindles more easily and burns more rapidly.
Cannel coal is a variety of bituminous coal, rich in hydrogen and hydrocarbons, and is exceedingly valuable as a gas coal.
In some instances, however, a certain amount of moisture in a bituminous coal produces a mechanical action that assists in the combustion and makes it possible to develop higher capacities than with dry coal.
Moreover our modern chemical industries, such as the dye industry, are based upon the substances contained in bituminous coal, most of which are wasted in our customary methods of consumption.
In that year, for the purposes of negotiation with the federal government relative to the controlled production and price of bituminous coal, they organized the National Coal Association.
This is a variety of bituminous coal, rich in hydrocarbons.
In the Northwest briquettes made of West Virginia semi-bituminous coal sell at the same price as run-of-mine coal of the same quality.
Semi-bituminous coal= represents a class between the hard and soft grades.
Semi-bituminous coal is often called smokeless coal, because in burning it produces relatively little smoke.
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