COAL GAS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting

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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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