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coal dust

[′kōl ‚dəst]

(mining engineering)

A finely divided coal, sometimes defined as coal that will pass through 100-mesh screens (100 wires to the inch or 40 wires to the centimeter).

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The explosion unleashed more than 2,500 tons of coal dust, an engineer for one of the mine's parent companies, Du Bo, told the state-run Xinhua News Agency.

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The death toll from explosions would run into many hundreds until it was realised that coal dust was responsible for increasing the severity of explosions underground.

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I was not a deprived child, I lived in a semi-detached and had a middle-class lifestyle and remember folding paper to help light the fires, and even using coal dust and damp paper to keep fires smouldering when out.

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They suffer respiratory diseases from coal dust, noise from ceaseless underground explosions and the fumes of 100 diesel trucks transporting 170 tons of coal a day on a 24-hour schedule.

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In addition to posting a report to its own website, BNSF also testified at hearings before the Surface Transportation Board that each rail car loses an average of 500 lb of coal dust per trip.