(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
(v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
(v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(2) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(3) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(4) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(5) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(6) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(7) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(8) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
(9) In the US, electricity accounts for 39% of emissions – and 75% of that is contributed by coal.
(10) A survey was conducted in southern Illinois with a population of 46 coal miners and ex-coal miners ranging in age from 42 to 86 years.
(11) Australia’s greatest contribution to global warming is through our coal, exported and burned in foreign power stations.
(12) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(13) The DECC believes clusters of coal and gas plants with CCS would offer efficiency because they could share the costs of building and operating pipelines to storage facilities, probably in old North Sea oil and gas fields.
(14) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(15) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
(16) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(18) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(19) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(20) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
Ember
Definition:
(n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
(a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The board was also asked to make recommendations for the government and council to work to minimise the risk of embers from external fires getting into the open-cut mines.
(2) And driving around Baltimore on Monday night, when the riots of 2015 came to town, it was difficult to tell whether this building here had burned in the wake of rising police tensions, or if that house over there had been empty since the embers of another series of riots and near-riots – in April 1968 – that left Baltimore unrepaired, in more ways than one, for nearly half a century.
(3) GDF Suez did not adequately recognise a fire caused by ember attack on the worked-out areas of the Hazelwood mine as a mining hazard.
(4) I don’t think but we have to wait.” While Stones was stretchered away in the dying embers with ankle ligament damage that should rule him out of England duty, this was a satisfying occasion all-round for United.
(5) "embers tell me they have seen their energy costs increase considerably in the last year, typically by 30% or more, and in one case doubling.
(6) England, advancing on Ireland, glows like the embers left after a bonfire , or a black dress scattered with shreds of gold leaf; Milan announces itself with starbursts of gold on dark velvet , while Cairo, fed by the glittering ribbon of the Nile (Egypt being the natural equivalent to California's graphic illiustration of our dependence on water), favours white light; central Paris declares its exclusivity , the périphérique hugging the centre tight, keeping it safe from the banlieues .
(7) After the boss’s intervention, she emailed him in August requesting a shot which used “no face melting, less fire in the hair, fewer embers on the face” to replace the current version of Kim’s death, which culminates in his head exploding.
(8) We cannot stand by until the last embers of the war have died down,” he says.
(9) Jim, from Tanjil South, was seeking refuge in his swimming pool as embers dropped in the water around him.
(10) It is difficult, as you navigate the embers and haze, to imagine anything ever growing in this desolation.
(11) Wait about an hour after the embers start glowing to keep pain to a minimum.
(12) When Muhammad Ali rumbled in the jungle with George Foreman exactly 40 years ago on Thursday, they were safely distant from the dying embers of a conflict that still engaged the more perilous commitment of 1.5 million of their compatriots in Vietnam.
(13) It was the embers of the Labour government and the then culture secretary Andy Burnham thought: "Why not do it ourselves?"
(14) Cooked on embers in boats on the sand, the must-try is espeto de sardinas (just-caught grilled sardines on a stick, €4.50).
(15) When the embers had cooled, Kenyans took once again to Twitter to question how well the security services had responded in the crisis.
(16) Insurance broker Neil Cook, of Ember JD Insurance , told Cash he is being approached by increasing numbers of leaseholders who are being charged significantly above the going rate.
(17) The mine is surrounded by the national park and a change in wind after the burn had ended reignited embers and carried them across containment lines, ERA said on Wednesday.
(18) Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “You can see the embers of unrest starting to smoulder.
(19) Judy said the wind pushed the fire up and down steep slopes, creating embers that sparked spot fires in different directions.
(20) We'll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago.