Anthracite

Anthracite coal

Description

A hard, black Coal that has a high Carbon content (92-98%). Anthracite has a semi-metallic luster and fractures conchoidally. It contains few volatile hydrocarbons and burns with a blue, smoke-free flame.

Synonyms and Related Terms

hard coal; kilkenny coal; black coal; antracita (Esp.); anthracite (Fr.); antracyt (Pol.); antracite (Port.); antracit (Sven.); Anthracit (Deut.); anthraciet (Ned.)

Physical and Chemical Properties

• Density = 1.4-1.8 g/ml

Resources and Citations

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 61

• Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracite (Accessed Jan. 15, 2006)

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Robert Weast (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, v. 61, 1980 Comment: density=1.4-1.8

• Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, Douglas M. Considine (ed.), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1976

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000