gas coal

English

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.
   • 1870, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains:

     It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.

Anagrams

• coal gas