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Formation of coal.
Coal was formed from the remains of plants that live in swampy forests of scale trees, giant ferns, horsetails, and club mosses over millions of years ago. Layer upon layer of these plants died and were compressed and then covered with soil. As the layers were successively covered, their access to the air was limited and this stopped the full decomposition process creating peát. Coal was formed due to the compression of the peat jat high temperature and pressure.
Coal is a fossil fuel that is formed due to the decomposition of dead plants and tress millions of years. The formation of coal is as follows:
→ In the ancient times, the world was filled with dense forests.
→ As a characteristic of living organisms, even these giant trees and other plants die and fall to the ground along with other natural disasters such as earthquakes that made them buried under the ground.
→ More and more soil gets deposited over this matter as time passes and gets buried deep under the soil.
→ Due to pressure and high heat present due to compression in the absence of air, these dead trees slowly turn into coal.
→ It is a highly length process of nature that cannot be done in laboratories.
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→ Coal is also called Buried Sunshine. This is due to the fact that plants from which this coal was formed used sunlight in the process of photosynthesis and this energy is used when we burn coal.
→ Due to its formation from ancient fossils of plants, coal is a fossil fuel.