stove coal
anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 inches (about 4 to 6 centimeters), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
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By substituting your red ashes from stove coal, an inferior representative of the foregoing paste will be produced.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 | Barkham BurroughsI was told that an excellent quality of stove coal existed in the vicinity, and would be used whenever it proved most economical.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace KnoxLarge lizards customarily ate furnace coal, middle-sized lizards ate stove coal.
Concerning Sally | William John HopkinsNever again would the gynesaurus feed on stove coal plucked, ripe, from the branches whereon it grew.
Concerning Sally | William John HopkinsHe pressed it in egg-shaped moulds, and has succeeded in making capital stove coal from it.
Derrick Sterling | Kirk Monroe
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