Coal
Material
Material noun - The basic elements from which something can be developed.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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It has a huge variety of uses, including use as an industrial lubricant, coal substitute, fertilizer, and building material, but its most common use is being drunk (or turned into ice cream).
Source: Literature / Radiance - When pressed about why it wants coal and diamonds, Munakata says that it uses the carbon based material for food.
Source: Film / Dogora - Requires reconfiguring, but there's ways to make them run on coal and coal gas, oil, kerosene, propane, gasoline and diesel fuel, natural gas, sunlight, radioactive material, plant matter and charcoal, garbage, compost, uranium ... Really, anything that gives off heat.
Source: Extreme Omnivore / Real Life
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