fuel
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Fuel is a material that can be burned to produce energy, with firewood being one of the earliest examples used by humans. It matters because fuel provides the energy needed for heating, cooking, and powering machines and vehicles that are essential to modern life.
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17 sectionsContents
- History
- Chemical
- Solid fuel
- Liquid fuels
- Fuel gas
- Biofuels
- Fossil fuels
- Energy
- Nuclear
- Fission
- Fusion
- Liquid fuels for transportation
- See also
- Footnotes
- Works cited
- References
- Further reading
thumb|upright=1.35|Firewood was one of the first fuels used by humans.
Fuel are any materials that can react with other substances to release energy as thermal energy or to be used for work. The concept was originally applied solely to those materials capable of releasing chemical energy but has since also been applied to other sources of heat energy, such as nuclear energy (via nuclear fission and nuclear fusion).