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COAL GAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coal gas mean?
• COAL GAS (noun)
The noun COAL GAS has 1 sense:
1. gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting
Familiarity information: COAL GAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("coal gas" is a kind of...):
fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coal gas"):
town gas (coal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial use)
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