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🌑 How Coal Is Formed: The Slow Birth of Black Stone Across Deep Time
From section: 🚂 Coal and the rise of steam powerCoal’s concentrated energy also made it central to the age of steam engines. In the nineteenth century, coal fueled boilers that heated water into steam, which then powered locomotives, factories, pumps, mills, and ships. …