The heat used in warming a house is usually obtained by burning coal or wood.
To determine the efficiency of a steam engine it is necessary to know not only the mechanical equivalent of heat but also the heat produced by burning coal or gas; 1 lb.
One has but to think of the heat produced by burning coal, wood, oil, and gas, to recognize the importance of this source.
Mossier found this native steel at the village of Bouiche, near Nery, department of the Allier, in a spot where there had existed a seam of burning coal.
Had any one, with this view, thrown a bit of sal-ammoniac on a burning coal, he must have seen with astonishment that instead of decrepitating it became entirely volatilized.
If one of these cakes be exposed a few minutes to the light, and then carried into a dark place, it will shine like a burning coal.
Lighting up the dull strata of the buttes are the ever present pinks and reds of scoria--clay burnt into a brick-like shale by the centuries-old fires of burning coal veins.
The Things wherein I observed a Piece of shining Wood and a burning Coal to agree or resemble each other are principally these five: 1.
Both shining Wood and a burning Coal, having been deprived, for a Time, of their Light, by the withdrawing of the contiguous Air, may presently recover it by letting in fresh Air upon them.
Both shining Wood and a burning Coal need the Presence of the Air (and that too of such a Density to make them continue shining).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burning coal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
