What is coal

[ExpressLane]

What is coal

1. Coal is 100% pure carbon so coal isn't a hydrocarbon. Coal and carbon are synonymous.

2. Coal is Carbon and hydrocarbon. Coal and carbon aren't synonymous.

 

[BartenderElite]

Current events forum.

 

[ExpressLane]

Current events forum.

This is an issue in the current event forum

 

[Noking]

What is coal

1. Coal is 100% pure carbon so coal isn't a hydrocarbon. Coal and carbon are synonymous.

2. Coal is Carbon and hydrocarbon. Coal and carbon aren't synonymous.

Who gives a shit????????????

 

[Cypress]

It's not 100 percent pure carbon.

 

[ExpressLane]

Who gives a shit????????????

So you are OK burning it!!!

 

[ExpressLane]

It's not 100 percent pure carbon.

Answer the poll

 

[Damocles]

Coal is peat mushed together for a few thousands of years creating coal. It is mostly carbon with variable rates of other elements including mainly oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and hydrogen.

Coal is not synonymous with carbon.

 

[Cypress]

Answer the poll

Coal, like oil and gas, is derived from the remains of plants and animals, aka carbon-based life. We don't call it hydrocarbon-based life, even though life is primarily based on molecules of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus.

Carbon based life or carbon based fuel, or carbon footprints are just colloquial shorthand for fossil fuels and some of the emissions problems that come with them

 

[ExpressLane]

Coal, like oil and gas, is derived from the remains of plants and animals, aka carbon-based life. We don't call it hydrocarbon-based life, even though life is primarily based on molecules of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus.

Carbon based life or carbon based fuel, or carbon footprints are just colloquial shorthand for fossil fuels and some of the emissions problems that come with them

Indeed.

 

[AProudLefty]

What is coal

1. Coal is 100% pure carbon so coal isn't a hydrocarbon. Coal and carbon are synonymous.

2. Coal is Carbon and hydrocarbon. Coal and carbon aren't synonymous.

It's what you get every Christmas morning. You're just finding that out?

 

[ExpressLane]

It's what you get every Christmas morning. You're just finding that out?

I was robbed. I never got coal.

 

[AProudLefty]

I was robbed. I never got coal.

Damn. Your area must have been so bad.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Damn. Your area must have been so bad.

Maybe he's like Charlie Brown and just gets a rock...

 

[AProudLefty]

Maybe he's like Charlie Brown and just gets a rock...

A hit and a miss.