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Q: When does plant matter accumulate to form coal or oil?
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What is the difference between the organic material from which coal forms the organic material from which petroleum and natural gas form?

Coal is plant matter ( tress from the Carboniferous ) and oil is from micro-organic matter.


Is coal a meteor?

No. A meteor is an object from space that is falling through the atmosphere. A meteorite is a rock from space that has hit the ground. Coal is neither. It forms underground form dead plant matter.


Is coal pollution?

Coal in itself is not a form of pollution, it is a substance formed from dead and fossilised plant matter. However it creates polluting substances, namely the gas carbon dioxide, when burnt.


Out of what material did coal form?

Plant material :)


Is coal a mixture or pure?

coal is a mixture and impure because it is in crude form. coke and carbon are pure form of matter.


Which best explains how coal deposits formed?

Coal deposits form over a long period of time through biological and geological process. Dead plant matter is converted into peat, which is converted into lignite. Lignite is converted into sub-bituminous coal, after that bituminous coal, and lastly anthracite.


Did animals and plants form bituminous coal?

Bituminous coal is largely the product of ancient plant remains, although some animals would have contributed to a very small percentage of its mass.


How does coal and oil form?

Coal are form when we burn trees. oil is form from the remains of animals and plant that lived millions of years ago in water environment.


Are sandstone and mudstone sedimentary rocks?

no not all of them for example like Bituminous coal or coal, is form by plant remains


What is coal ash?

I assume that by the name that would be the leftover ash from a coal fire (such as from a coal powered electric generating plant) mixed with water to form a slurry.


What is coal ash slurry?

I assume that by the name that would be the leftover ash from a coal fire (such as from a coal powered electric generating plant) mixed with water to form a slurry.


What is the noun of prevent and accumulate?

The noun form of prevent is prevention. The noun form of accumulate is accumulation.