soft coal in a sentence
Examples
- By the end of 1925, Illinois was the only remaining unionized state which could compete, in terms of soft coal production, with the others listed.
- Conveyor belts snake through the canyon-size hole, carrying chunks of soft coal to a power plant in the distance, its cooling towers wreathed in steam.
- However, the locomotives were not particularly successful as the TGR used soft coal, on which the W F class were known to be reluctant steamers.
- These locomotives were fired on a mix of 60 % Tasmanian soft coal and 40 % NSW hard coal, which delivered a better result in steaming.
- The soft coal mined west of the Mississippi River does not burn as hot as harder coal from the East and Midwest, but it contains less sulfur.
- There, he teamed with Elliot Jaspin on a five-part series on the collapse of the huge Blue Coal Corporation, once one of the largest producers of soft coal.
- The price of Western soft coal has plummeted, to $ 5.90 a ton from $ 12.50 a ton over the last 16 years, and the controversy has quieted.
- After 1850 soft coal, which is cheaper but dirtier, came into demand for railway locomotives and stationary steam engines, and was used to make coke for steel after 1870.
- "Lufengpithecus lufengensis " is a fossil ape recovered from lignite ( soft coal ) beds at the Shihuiba Locality in Lufeng County, Yunnan, China, dating to the latest Miocene.
- Low-hanging clouds and heavy mists are partly to blame; the constant burning of soft coal, the major source of electricity for this town of 110, 000, snuffs out the remaining daylight.