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What is peat made from?

To quote Wikipedia's article on Peat, it is partially decayed vegetation matter. Peat forms in wetlands where decay is inhibited by a low oxygen or acidic environment. W… (MORE)

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In Home & Garden

Will peat float?

I think it will float, because the density is about 0.84 g. so the density will probably be less

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Is peat a rock?

Peat is decayed vegetation found in bogs. The main component is sphagnum moss, but it contains other plants as well. Peatlands are sometimes called mire.

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In Geology

What is a peat dog?

Thought to be one of the first "dogs," it was first noted in Europe, identified by teeth marks left in bones. It is said to be medium sized, with a tapered muzzle, wide deep c… (MORE)

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In Gardening

Is peat moss the same as peat?

No, peat moss is a growing, living plant, when peat moss dies and given the right conditions it will eventually become peat.

Simple Mary

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Nine years of answering historical, educational and home improvement questions on answers.com. If I don't know the answer, I look it up

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What is peat?

peat is a noun, and refers to partially carbonized vegetable matter, usually mosses, found in bogs and used as fertilizer and fuel. (answers.com). It is used as mulch, but in … (MORE)

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What are the stages of peat?

The bog is drained. The peat is harvested. The peat is transported. The peat is marketed. >They are the 4 stages of peat.

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Is peat a resource?

Yes. Peat is considered a non-renewable resource because it takes more than a human lifetime for peat to form naturally.

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Where is peat use?

THE difficulty in obtaining coal for industrial purposes, and the high price that has had to be paid for it recently, especially where works are situated at long distances aw…ay from the mines, has led to more attention being paid to the use of peat for fuel. In the "Notes" of May 31, 1900 (vol. lxii. p. 108), a short description was given of the uses to which peat was being applied in Austria in the manufacture of textile fabrics. In a recent number of the Engineer (February 8, 1901) an account was also given of the peat fuel industry in Sweden. It is said that there is hardly any question of the day so prominent in that country as the use of peat fuel as a substitute for coal. The Government, recognising the importance of this matter, has appointed a Crown Peat Engineer, at a salary of 500l. a year, to survey the principal Crown peat bogs and to report upon the quality and suitability of the peat for use as fuel in locomotive engines. At several of the large works in Sweden peat is now used for generating steam. At the great Yungtell Metal Works and the Motala Shipbuilding Works, it is also used in generating furnace gases, the fuel being prepared by specially constructed works. At the former establishment, engines of 230 horse-power are supplied with steam generated by this fuel. In the province of Smaland a syndicate has recently purchased the peat bogs, from which it is estimated that a million tons of fuel will be produced in a year. At the Karpalund sugar refinery peat is now solely used for the nine boilers in use there of 100 horse-power each; the fuel being first converted into gas in generators in front of the boilers. This establishment has purchased an adjacent bog containing sufficient peat to supply the works for twenty years. The bog is connected with the factory by a Decauville railway. The furnaces were formerly fed by coal obtained from England, and a very great saving has been effected, the peat fuel costing less than half that of coal. On several of the railways peat is being tried as fuel for the locomotives with every promise of permanent success. There are several different kinds of machines for making this fuel. The process something resembles brick-making. The turf is cut from the bog either by manual labour or machinery, and stacked in summer to be air-dried, any remaining moisture being removed in heated drums or by centrifugals, and the peat is then compressed into briquettes. It is claimed that one ton of dried peat from the best class of bogs is equal to half a ton of English coal. (MORE)

Dan Crimmins

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Why is peat shortaned?

I don't believe it is. Peat moss is a growing, living plant. When peat moss dies, it clumps together in a peat bog of water, and over the decades, gets more and more compacted… (MORE)