Coal and Petroleum

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Coal noun - Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.

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Petroleum and coal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Petroleum" instead a noun "Coal".

Nearby Words: coaler, coaled, coaly, coaling

Petroleum noun - A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.

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Coal and petroleum are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Coal" instead a noun "Petroleum".

One of Kilgore Trout's stories in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions tells of a planet where all food is made from petroleum and coal, because its animal and plant life had been destroyed by pollution.

Source: Future Food Is Artificial
It's a major part of the aforementioned petroleum and coal tar. Coincidence?

Source: Green Rocks
The idea of drilling for petroleum, even if it had been readily available, or of mining coal or uranium would have been dismissed as impracticable and even worse than useless.

Source: Literature / Despoilers of the Golden Empire

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