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Coal is a black shiny carboniferous rock/stone.

However, it can range from dull brown to hard and shiny depending on the geological processes it has undergone.

The types of coal are

Peat ; a brown/ black earthy clay texture. burns in smoke/no flame

Lignite ; A black moderately hard rock that burns with smoke and flame .

Coal ; A black hard shiny rock that burns with flame and smoke

Anthracite ; A black very hard rock that burns with an hot flame.

It was formed in the Carboniferous Geological Period. m from decaying animals and vegetation.

It is extracted from the earth by either deep underground mines, or open-cast quarries.

Being originally biological matter it contains nitrogen, sulphur halogens.

Coal can be baled and these elements can be captured as Carbon Dioxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Ammonia, Hydrogen sulphide etc., and used commercially.

Environmentalists don't like coal, because went combusted freely into the atmosphere it releases all these gases together with a lot of dust and dirt.

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lenpollock

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