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Complex Mixtures > Fossil Fuels > Coal
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Energy-Generating Resources > Fossil Fuels > Coal
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Energy-Generating Resources > Fossil Fuels > Coal

Preferred term

Coal  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Anthracite
  • Anthracites
  • Bituminous Coal
  • Bituminous Coals
  • Coal, Bituminous
  • Coal, Peat
  • Coals, Bituminous
  • Coals, Peat
  • Lignite
  • Lignites
  • Peat Coal
  • Peat Coals

Note

  • /adv eff permitted but do not use for COAL MINING + PNEUMOCONIOSIS or ANTHRACOSILICOSIS unless particularly discussed as coal

Scope note

  • A natural fuel formed by partial decomposition of vegetable matter under certain environmental conditions.

History note

  • 68(64); was in Cat J only 1964-81

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003031

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