
Bituminous coal - Wikipedia
Fig 1 Types of coal and their uses. The term 'coking coal' is used to designate certain types of bituminous coals which, when heated at high temperatures (over 1,000 deg C) in the absence of air (carbonization), soften, liquefy, and then re-solidify into a hard but porous mass known as coke, used mainly in the production of hot metal in a blast furnace.