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What does anthracite mean?

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Noun
  1. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals; hard coal.
  2. A dark grey colour.
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Peats will in situ change successively to lignite, to bituminous coal, and eventually to anthracite.
Colours are combined with all shades of grey, ranging from silver to anthracite, accented with rose or fuchsia.
While our review sample was anthracite, the Quality Mat is also available in blue, red and orange.
Coal is usually classified into the sub-groups known as anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and peat.
Depending on the degree of carbon concentration and coalification, one differentiates between lignite, bituminous coal and anthracite.
In 1840 iron ore had only recently been discovered and anthracite coal mining had not yet begun.

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