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Main Entry:	coal [kohl] Show IPA/koʊl/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bitumen
Synonyms:	anthracite, ash, carbon, char, charcoal, cinder, culm, ember, fuel, scoria, slack, smut, spark, stoke

Main Entry:	embers
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	hot ashes from fire
Synonyms:	ash, brand, cinders, clinkers, coals, firebrand, live coals, slag, smoking remnants, smoldering remains

Main Entry:	fire
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	burning
Synonyms:	blaze, bonfire, campfire, charring, coals, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flame and smoke, flames, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, hot spot, incandescence, inferno, luminosity, oxidation, phlogiston, pyre, rapid oxidation, scintillation, scorching, sea of flames, searing, sparks, tinder, up in smoke, warmth

Example Sentences

With the cost of heating oil and natural gas prone to spikes, some homeowners decide coal is worth the trouble.

There are great pictures of coal seams exposed way up on the sides of mountains.

But more coal means more carbon emissions, which endanger the whole world in the longer run.

With the cost of heating oil and natural gas prone to spikes, some homeowners decide coal is worth the trouble.

There are great pictures of coal seams exposed way up on the sides of mountains.

But more coal means more carbon emissions, which endanger the whole world in the longer run.

Coal forms from organic material that decays and experiences pressure and heat for millions of years.

By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation.

One would think that open-pit coal mining would destroy fossils.

The destruction wrought by coal mining in local communities was another frequent subject of the photographers.

Bloomberg's gift will help fund a campaign that aims to reduce greenhouse gas and mercury emissions by shutting down coal plants.

My committee members received lumps of coal from my cats' litter box.

Growth in developing countries is the main reason why coal consumption rose so much.

No matter how bad coal might be for the planet, the.

Tons of coal ash are recycled in soil, raising questions about a buildup of arsenic and other toxic substances in food crops.

The simplicity reminds me of how little coal mining has progressed.

Mountaintop mining is the controversial practice of excavating coal using explosives to rupture mountaintops.

The takeover would create one of the largest coal producers in the world and a powerhouse in the production of steel-making coal.

All of our useful canaries in the coal mine would probably be preserved with half of those who currently have tenure.

Prodigious exports of iron ore, coal and other commodities have helped it survive the global downturn without a recession.

Coal mining isn't the only human activity that can trigger earthquakes.

As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal cannot be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized.

His team of experts found that the ship's demise was self- inflicted--likely the result of a coal bunker fire.

The compact, vertical steam engine is fed coal automatically through hoppers eliminating the need to constantly stoke the fire.

They form one of the principal centres of coal supply in.

But they work the rich kids hard, they put the coal to them.

The cotton kings and coal barons had to build towns because their vital resources-water and coal-were in out-of-the-way places.

Now coal firms want to literally open the mountain for business.

The world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases will share innovative technologies to clean up coal burning.

Along the back wall, coal hearths fire metal to glowing red-hot and white.

Sasol, the company that pioneered coal to liquid technology.

The notion of turning coal into liquid fuels on a big scale has simmered for decades, but only the.

The whole idea of penalizing areas of the country because they burn coal is counter productive.

It is enjoying a revival, partly because gas is expensive, and partly because coal supplies are widely.

But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy.

Coal waste could provide a strong, lightweight material for car manufacturers.

Stop cutting off their tops to get to the coal and minerals underneath.

Coal with its volatile components-water, gases, coal tar-baked away.

The local community colleges do a nice job, however viable industries, aside from coal are non-existant.

The prices of rival power sources, including coal and natural gas, have risen dramatically in recent years.

The ancient forests were found on top of existing coal seams.

Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline.

Back in the day, the first-footer also brought coal for warmth.

Backyard grill masters argue about the flavors given off by a traditional coal fire versus propane.

Coal and natural gas fire two-thirds of all power production and nearly all transportation uses petroleum.

The coal had spilled into the turret sometime after the ship went down.

Despite industry efforts to promote clean coal, answers to the problems of coal ash are lacking.

And a steamship would need to pull into port every few hundred miles to replenish its supply of coal.

Unfortunately, the electricity is cheap because it comes from coal.

And plants powered by gas emit far less carbon dioxide than those powered by dirty coal.

And they deliver electricity more cheaply than gas or coal plants.

The aftermath of burning a mountain of coal isn't pretty.

We are still belching smoke and smog and dependent on both oil and coal.

Nuclear power fell in-between, as did coal burned using carbon-capturing smokestacks.

The only other options are coal and gas, which are much more harmful to the environment.

In a multistep process coal would react with oxygen and steam to make pure hydrogen, plus a stream of waste gases.

Gas industry dismisses claim that shale-derived natural gas is worse than coal for the climate.

Many years ago there were many coal mines here which was the living for many families.

Note the aging coal mine structure near the bottom of the photo.

The world's dependence on traditional fossil fuels-particularly coal and oil-must change.

For example, he wrote about burning coal for fuel and using paper money rather than coins.

For clean coal they have symmetrically aligned stack of molecules coming out of two cooling towers.

Wind power is not going to completely replace coal or natural gas, but.

The markets for medium-term bets on coal prices and weather conditions suffered.

Every new coal plant would be paying the steep price to separate carbon from its exhaust stream and store it underground.

Replacing wood and coal with electricity could help reduce poverty and pollution.

The accompanying camouflage kit allowed an agent to paint the coal the same color as local coal in order to blend in.

Heating a house by burning substances such as kerosene, wood, and coal can contaminate the air inside the house.

Coal informs discussions about the gas rigs and leases cut into the forests and farmland.

Experts in quarry or coal mine explosives know mistakes.

The best part of going into a coal mine is coming out again.

And the recent flurry of environmental disasters in oil and coal fields has.

It is a renewable energy source, unlike petroleum and coal.

Put another way: humanity can only afford to burn and vent less than one quarter of known oil, natural gas and coal reserves.

Miners uncovered the unusual find while digging for lignite, or brown coal.

The critical subsidies for oil, gas and coal cannot be found on recent government ledgers.

Coal mining destroys forests and environment by blowing them up.

Coal fired power stations are designed for constant loads.

Actually what you suggest is equally possible for coal.

Thousand degree steam over coal produces hydrogen and carbon dioxide via partial oxidation/steam reformation.

Main Entry:	kindling
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	material for starting a fire
Synonyms:	coals, fatwood, firewood, lightwood, tinder, twigs, wood

Main Entry:	carbon
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	element
Synonyms:	charcoal, coal, coke, copy, graphite, lead, replica, soot

Main Entry:	ember
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	piece of burned matter
Synonyms:	ash, brand, cinder, coal, slag

Main Entry:	onyx
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	black
Synonyms:	atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, inky, jet, jetty, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, piceous, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy

Main Entry:	pitch-black
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	black
Synonyms:	atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, inky, jet, jetty, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-dark, pitch-dark pitchy, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy

Main Entry:	pitchy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	black
Synonyms:	atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, inky, jet, jetty, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy

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