Mineral charcoal


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a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; - known to miners as mother of coal.
See under Charcoal.

See also: Charcoal, Mineral

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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