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gas coals

gas coals is the plural of gas coal.

Meaning of gas coal

Noun

gas coal (countable and uncountable, plural gas coals)

  1. A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.
    • It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.1870, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains

Questions about gas coals

What is gas coals the plural of?
Gas coals is the plural of gas coal.

Words near gas coals in the dictionary

  1. gas chromatographs
  2. gas chromatography
  3. gas clathrate
  4. gas clathrates
  5. gas coal
  6. gas coals
  7. gas constant
  8. gas constants
  9. gas cylinder
  10. gas cylinders
  11. gas discharge

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