Explanation:
Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago. In the burning process of coal, carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted. Humans expel CO2, and plants utilize it every single day. Carbon is a building block for all forms of life and is used in a lot of everyday products.
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years. Vast deposits of coal originate in former wetlands—called coal forests—that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and Permian times. However, many significant coal deposits are younger than this and originate from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.
