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There are several forms of coal.

Going from softest to hardest.

Peat, Lignite, Coal, and Anthracite.

'Peat' is just like a soft dirty black earth,but it is coal in geoloicial formation.

Lignite is a soft black rock that can easily be broken.

Coal ; is a hard shiny black rock, that needs an axe or pick to break it.

Anthacite ' is a very hard shiny black coal, and does not break easily to an axe/pick.

They are all carboniferous and will burn with increasing degree of heat and decreasing emission of smoke.

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