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Fossil fuels and metallic minerals are renewable resources.

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Renewable resources

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Combustable

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Solution

The correct option is B
Combustable

Fossil fuels and metallic minerals have been formed in the earth over the course of millions of the years. They are present in abundance but not renewable. At the current rate of fossil fuel overuse due to industrialization, overpopulation and affluence, they will be exhausted soon.

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