Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gas coal

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: gas -coal
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

gas coals (plural)

Questions

What does gas coal mean?: A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.

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