Coal
material · 1000 BC · Ancient world
A fossil fuel — the basis of the Industrial Revolution.
Principles and materials it uses
- Coal mine — uses. Extraction.
Where it is used
- Watt steam engine — is used in. Steam engines were fired with coal.
- Coke — is material for. Coke is baked coal.
- Coal gas — is material for. The gas was made by the dry distillation of coal.
- Thermal power station — is used in. The fuel is coal or gas.
- Industrial Revolution — is used in. Coal.
- Synthetic dye — is material for. Aniline from coal tar.
- Aspirin — is material for. The raw materials of early pharmaceutical synthesis were products of coal tar distillation.
- Power station — is used in. The first stations ran on coal.
- Combined heat and power plant — is used in. It burns coal or gas.
What it is a kind of
- Carbon — is a kind of. Mostly carbon.