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Basin :: Basin (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields..

Pica :: Pica (n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia..

Phlorone :: Phlorone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone..

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Chark :: Chark (n.) Charcoal; a cinder.

Empyrical :: Empyrical (a.) Containing the combustible principle of coal.

Anthracomancy :: Anthracomancy (n.) Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..

Caking Coal :: Caking coal () See Coal.

Wale :: Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it..

Connate-perfoliate :: Connate-perfoliate (a.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset..

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults..

Fluoranthene :: Fluoranthene (n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar..

Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..

Staithman :: Staith (n.) A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.

Braize :: Braize (n.) Charcoal powder; breeze.

Joint :: "Joint (v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly..

Fluorene :: Fluorene (n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially..

Coaltit :: Coaltit (n.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse..

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