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Coal is normally burned to produce heat. This is done by burning the coal with oxygen from the atmosphere. The process unites carbon and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and the formation of the chemical bonds in this process releases energy as heat.
Burning one ton of coal creates about 3 tons of carbon dioxide. The additional mass comes from the oxygen taken from the atmosphere.
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Why is coal used for electricity?
When coal burns, it produces heat. This can be converted to other forms of energy.
What form of energy is stored in coal?
The energy stored in coal that is converted to heat is chemical energy. Of course coal, like any other matter, also has stored nuclear energy.
What natural resource can be converted by humans into forms of energy in order to do useful things?
How about coal, oil, natural gas, uranium
How is stored chemical energy converted into thermal energy when coal is burned to make steam?
It's converted by the coal being burned.
When coal is burned this energy is converted into what energy?
Coke is formed
How energy is coal converted to electricity?
Electricity from coal is the electric power made from the energy stored in coal. Carbon, made from ancient plant material, gives coal most of its energy. This energy is released when coal is burned.
How is coal converted into usable energy?
it is formed by being burned which causes heat, which can also be converted into motion energy.
Oil and coal are what forms of energy?
They are substances so they are not forms of energy. They contain chemical energy.
What change in energy occurs when you burn coal or petroleum?
Chemical energy is converted to thermal energy
When coal burns what forms of energy are released?
light and heat energy
What form of energy does coal make?
Energy cannot be 'made' or 'destroyed'. It can simply be transformed to a different type of energy. Coal contains chemical energy, which will for example, be converted to heat energy in say a coal fired industrial boiler.
How is energy transformed in a coal burning power plant?
The energy in coal is stored as chemical potential energy.When the coal is burned, this chemical energy is converted to heat. The boiler converts this thermal energy into pressure of the steam.The pressure energy in the steam is then converted into rotating mechanical energy using the turbine. As the turbine spins the generator, the generator converts this into electrical energy.
