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coals

/kohl/US // koʊl //UK // (kəʊl) //

煤炭,煤块,煤层,煤

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel.Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
    • : a piece of glowing, charred, or burned wood or other combustible substance.
    • : charcoal.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to burn to coal or charcoal.
    • : to provide with coal.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to take in coal for fuel.

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Examples

  • In some parts of the country right now that rely 60 percent or more for electricity generation on coal power, moving to electricity could increase GHG emissions.

  • In 2019, more than 66 percent of the electricity in China was generated using coal power, which is a leading contributor to air pollution in China.

  • In coal plants, supplying the coal accounts for about 40 percent of total expenses.

  • More than 40 percent of coal mined in the United States comes from federal land, and in 2016, the Obama administration hit pause on coal leasing there, pending a review of the program.

  • Not even Naunchik, who hails from a long lineage of union coal miners, aluminum millers, teachers, and machinists in western Pennsylvania, wants a work-stoppage strike to happen.

  • Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.

  • There was Milan Hruška, a fiery miner from the North Bohemian coal mines.

  • Life can be tough in West Virginia, especially for the hardworking souls of coal country.

  • He also says Rahall made millions off that “coal-killing” legislation, which is patently false.

  • The aforementioned stories may very well be legitimate, but let's consider them a sort of canary in the coal mine.

  • It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

  • Of late, however, it has acquired a far greater interest through the discovery of coal underneath its surface.

  • And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

  • An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.

  • But its use as such is to dispose of any such idea as that there is a natural price of coal or of anything else.