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Coal is a dark, combustible rock formed from ancient plants that decayed into peat and were transformed by heat and pressure over millions of years, composed mainly of carbon along with hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. It matters because it is a fossil fuel that has historically been a major energy source, though vast deposits from prehistoric tropical wetlands took millions of years to form and are now being consumed much more rapidly than they were created.
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Key facts
- Rock.name
- Coal
- Rock.type
- Sedimentary
- Rock.image
- Bituminous Coal.JPG
- Rock.image_caption
- Bituminous coal, the most common coal grade
- Rock.image_size
- 258px
- Rock.composition
- carbon
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Research
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sedimentary rock
- Has part
- maceral
- Image
- Coal (Anthracite).JPG
- Has use
- fuel
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- Category:Coal
- Commons category
- Coal
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- Coal
- color
- black
- different from
- Carbón
- OpenStreetMap tag
- resource=coal
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- studied by
- economic geology
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000091
- topic has template
- Template:Coal
- has cause
- climate change
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