The burning of anthracite coal requires appliances quite Afferent from those used for the burning of wood, or bitumin-)us coal, but the reasons for these differences, are not well un-lerstood by ...

This eerie town sits above a coal mine fire that has been continuously burning for well over half a century and has been ...

Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting ... One familiar example is anthracite coal, which is made almost entirely of carbon. It formed when dead plants fell into swamps long ...

By distilling bituminous coal in retorts to obtain gas for illumination, or by burning it in kilns or ... which does not exist in anthracite; this latter being a natural coke produced, it is ...

Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of ...