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Any sort of steam engine, such as steam trains or locomotives. Also old fashioned factories use coal burning to create heat, for exmaple during the process of creating lime or in a pottery kiln. Or a barbeque.
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What substance burns in oxygen to give us energy?
Many. for example coal, wood, natural gas, gasoline, ...
What happens to a diamond in a nuclear explosion?
It would probably light up like a piece of coal and burn. Diamond burns quite well.
How does a coal fired power station produce electricity?
A coal fired station burns coal to produce heat. The heat boils water to produce high pressure and temperature steam. The steam expands in a turbine to rotate the shaft. The turbines rotation drives a generator. The generator produces electricity which is sent out to the consumers.
What type of power plant burns material to make electricity?
Power plants burn fuel by literally burning it with the oxygen in air. The flames heat water, the water turns to steam, and the steam generates electricity in turbines coupled to generators.
What is the machine in a power station that changes kinetic energy into electrical energy?
for instance generator, crusher, boiler, coal
What type of coal burns the most effeciently?
The type of coal that burns the most efficiently is anthracite coal.
Which burns hottest coal or wood?
Coal
Which form of coal burns the hottest?
anthracite coal
What is bad about the steamboat?
it uses brunes coal it burns coal
What happens when coal burns?
When coal burns coal and oxygen react together in a chemical reaction involving heat. Carbon dioxide is emitted.
Which kind of crusher is a good machine for crushing coal?
A Coal Crusher Machine is good for crushing coal.
Why does kerosene oil burns with a flame whereas coal does not?
This is because coal does not have complete combustion whereas candle or kerosene burns completely
What is the temperature of coal fire?
Coal burns around 2800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Coal dust burns faster than a single lump of coal?
Correct!
Why does coal dust burn quicker than lumps of coal?
The coal dust burns more quickly because it has a greater surface area to be exposed to the flames of the fire, therefore it burns quicker than the lump of coal.
A black sedimentary rock that burns?
coal
What hapens to coal when the powerstations uses it?
It burns.
