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What is coal and what is the essential element of coal?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Coal is a fossil fuel created from the compaction of the earth on fossil vegetation from millions of years ago. It's primary constituents are carbon, sulfur, hydrogen (partly as moisture), nitrogen, oxygen and ash. Carbon is the most prominent constituent.

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