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Cannel Coal :: Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles..

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..

Day-coal :: Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface..

Sillock :: Sillock (n.) The pollock, or coalfish..

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

Stentor :: Stenting (n.) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.

Atrous :: Atrous (a.) Coal-black; very black.

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..

Put :: Put (v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway..

Heptane :: Heptane (n.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc..

Fitter :: Fitter (n.) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.

Dysodile :: Dysodile (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning..

Coaled :: Coaled (imp. & p. p.) of Coa.

Dresser :: Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

Coalite :: Coalite (v. i.) To unite or coalesce.

Heugh :: Heugh (n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

Poudrette :: Poudrette (n.) A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc..

Coletit :: Coletit (n.) Alt. of Coalti.

Coalfish :: Coalfish (n.) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

Pitchwork :: Pitchwork (n.) The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.

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