Sentence examples for opaque coal from inspiring English sources
I was puzzled by this — how could black, flaky, opaque coal be the same as the hard, transparent gemstone in her ring?
Clouds hang around a giant opaque triangle of coal pricking the blue sky in the distance.
Banded coals contain varying amounts of vitrinite and opaque material.
When water is present, as is always the case in an underground coal mine, the surface can rapidly become coated with an opaque layer of mud that completely obscures the instrument's field of view (Fig. 3).
This year, the CAG reported that allocation of coal-bearing land to private companies — again, through an opaque process rather than a competitive auction — had cost the government potential revenues of around $30 billion, despite concerns expressed by the senior bureaucrat in the coal ministry that those private companies were making "windfall profits" from the process.
That scam, dubbed Coalgate, has centered on the opaque government allotment process that enabled well-connected businessmen and politicians to obtain rights to undeveloped coal fields.
Coalgate, as the scandal is now known here, is centered on the opaque government allotment process that enabled well-connected businessmen and politicians to obtain rights to undeveloped coal fields.
They include bright coal, which contains more than 80 percent vitrinite, and splint coal, which contains more than 30 percent opaque matter.
Beneath a sky made opaque by billowing dust, a mechanised shovel driver steered his vehicle toward the vast wall of an open coal mine.
When flames have subsided and coals are glowing, grill shrimp 4 to 6 minutes on each side, until shrimp is opaque.
