List the used of coal
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Answer:
Coal has many important uses worldwide...
•The most significant uses of coal are in electricity generation, steel production, cement manufacturing and as a liquid fuel.
• Different types of coal have different uses.
•Steam coal - also known as thermal coal - is mainly used in power generation.
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What is coal?
Coal is a black, hard, combustible fossil fuel that consists mainly of carbon. The slow process by which the dead plants buried deep under the earth got converted into coal is called carbonisation.
What are the uses of coal?
- Coal is used as a fuel in homes and industries.
- Coal is used at Thermal Power Plants for generating electricity.
- Coal is used to make coal gas which is an important industrial fuel.
- Coal is used to make coke.
- Earlier, coal was used as a fuel to make steam to run steam engines of trains.
- Coal was also used as a source of organic chemicals.
What are the products of coal?
The various products of coal are separated by the process of destructive distillation. The products obtained after destructive distillation of coal are coal gas, coal tar and coke.
Uses of:
Coal gas => Fuel in industries, in the past used for lightning purposes.
Coal tar => Synthetic fibers, synthetic dyes, paints, used as metalling the roads earlier, perfumes, plastics, explosives, etc.
Coke => Used as fuel, reducing agent in extraction of metals.