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1. Short Paragraph on Coal – 432 Words
Editorial Staff • April 8, 2019  1 minute read
Outline:
What is coal? How was it formed?
In what parts of the world is coal found?
The place of coal in the social life in industry.
The future outlook of coal.
Coal is found in the earth, sometimes near the surface and sometimes yery deep down.
Some of the best coal mines in England are hali a milę under the earth. After being
taken half mile down the mine in a lift worked by machinery, the miners will have to
walk about another mile along the passages to the place where they have to work.
Coal is formed of the trees, leaves and gasses of old forests. The mass of vegetation in
those old jungles gradually formed a layer, and in the course of centuries became
buried under masses of earth. At first soft, it gradually became pressed down till it was
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2. hard and black. But the heat and light it absorbed from the sun are still in the coal, and
are given off when we burn it.
Coal is the finest fuel, giving a clear heat and burning for a long time. Most people in
Europe still warm their houses by means of coal fires. What a blessing coal is to dwellers
in cold countries! It is also used in industry, for without coal we could not smell the iron
ore and produce iron and steel. Great industrial countries like Britain and America owe
their prosperity to the fact that they have coal and iron mines close to each other.
It is hard and tiring work to dig. out the coal from the mines. It is also dangerous
because a kind of explosive gas forms down in the mine. Then an explosion takes place
and men are buried, often with great loss of life. Sometimes falls of coal cause
accidents. In the best coal districts nowadays, the coal is cut and taken out by
machinery.
Coal can be used as fuel directly, or can be turned into gas. It gives bye-product of
coke, tar or pitch, and a kind of petroleum at the same time. Again coal can be used for
the generation of electricity. China is full of rich coal-fields which should yield good
supplies in the future. In India there are some districts where there is no coal, and that is
why the poor people have to burn wood or the precious cowdung which should be
used to manure the fields. But it is probable that there are good supplies of coal in India
which have not yet been worked, just as good as the West Bengal mines.
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