coal smoke

collocation in English

meaningsofcoalandsmoke

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coal
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəʊl/us
/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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smoke
noun
uk
/sməʊk/us
/smoʊk/
the grey, black, or white mixture of gas and very small pieces of carbon that is produced when ...
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(Definition ofcoalandsmokefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Occasionally in the nineteenth centurycoalsmokehad been viewed in a positive light as a symbol of progress.
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Municipalities and states evolved reasonable and constitutional ordinances to controlcoalsmoke.
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Our washing bills alone might be enormously reduced if we could reduce the domesticcoalsmokeof the country.
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The boats had narrow, high funnels so that the steam and thickcoalsmokewas released high above the deck and away from the fishermen.
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Black smoke from burning oil was more conspicuous thancoalsmoke.
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Finally, the exhaust plume is filled with particulates, likecoalsmoke, allowing an aircraft to be spotted visually at long range.
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Concentrations of pollutants,coalsmokein particular, built up dramatically.
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Curtains were taken down and washed every fortnight; they were often so blackened bycoalsmokethat they had to be soaked in salted water before being washed.
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This is likely due the prevailing south-west wind which carriescoalsmokeand other airborne pollutants downwind, making the western edges of towns preferable to the eastern ones.
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With diesels in full command, the handmaidens of steam engines, the water tanks and coaling stations would soon fall, as did the dark smudges ofcoalsmoke.
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Women who are exposed to indoorcoalsmokehave about twice the risk and a number of the by-products of burning biomass are known or suspected carcinogens.
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