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How Coal Forms

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How Coal Forms
Partly decayed vegetation forms thick peat accumulations saturated with water. Burial by sediments heats and compresses the peat, gradually changing it to coal. Although it contains ~1/7 the energy of an equivalent weight of anthracite, dried peat has long been used as a fuel
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