Citations:coalstuff


 * 1859, James Hunt, "A Manual of the Philosophy of Voice and Speech":
 * The terms oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, are for instance rendered in German, sauerstoff, wasserstoff, kohlenstoff; literally translated, sourstuff, waterstuff, coalstuff.
 * 1903, Henry Edward Armstrong, "The Teaching of Scientific Method and Other Papers on Education":
 * The presence of “ coal - stuff ” or carbon in all of these having been inferred from their behaviour when incompletely burnt, the presence of hydrogen and oxygen will be indicated by their yielding water when destructively distilled.
 * 1997, Poul Anderson, “Uncleftish Beholding”:
 * Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.