anthracite

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/ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

Definition of anthracite

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noun

(countable, uncountable)A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.

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noun

(countable, uncountable)A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
(countable, uncountable)A dark grey color.

“In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!”

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Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.

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