Recoverable coal

Coal replaced coke as the principle locomotive fuel in the UK upon the introduction of the brick arch and firehole deflector plate about 1860. It soon became obvious that some ...

coal

Geography; Physical geography

Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds. The harder forms, such as anthracite ...

lignite

Energy; Coal

Lignite is a soft brown type of coal, with characteristics that places it somewhere between hard coal and peat. Lignite has a lower energy content and different characteristics ...

zechstein

Energy; Coal

Formations containing salt that were laid down in the second part of the Permian Period, the salt has risen up under or through the overlying formations in many places, producing ...

coal measures

Energy; Coal

The various strata which contain seams of coal.

Tavan Tolgoi

Energy; Coal

Situated at South Gobi desert in Mongolia, Tavan Tolgoi is the world's largest untapped coking coal reserve with an estimated deposit of 6 billion metric tons of steelmaking coal. ...

ethanol 95 (E95)

Energy (non-renewable); Coal; Natural gas; Petrol

A fuel containing a mixture of 95 percent ethanol and 5 percent gasoline

acid deposition

Energy; Coal

Refers to both wet deposition and dry deposition. Both occur as a result of ammonium, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur mixing with water molecules to create a higher acidity than the ...

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Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock band based in Moscow. The band was founded in August 2011 and stages politically provocative performances ...