The slow process by which the large land plants and trees buried deep under the earth have become coal is called :

(a) carbonation

(b) carburation

(c) carbonisation

(d) carbocation

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(c) carbonisation

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The slow process of conversion of plants into coal is calledcarbonization.

Name the process by which plant material (or vegetation) buried deep under the earth was slowly converted into coal.

Explain the process of carbonisation and formation of coal?

Choose the correct alternative :

(a) Anthracite is

(i) an inferior type of coal

(ii) a superior type of coal

(iii) the cheapest form of coal

(iv) none of the above

(b) Destructive distillation of coal yields

(i) coal tar

(ii) coal gas

(iii) coke

(iv) all of the above

(i) an amorphous form of carbon

(ii) a crystalline form of carbon

(iii) a pure form of carbon

(iv) a cluster of carbon atoms

(d) The process by which decayed plants slowly convert into coal is called

(i) petrification

(ii) carbonisation

(iii) carbonification

(iv) fermentation

(e) The purest form of the amorphous carbon is

(i) wood charcoal

(ii) sugar charcoal

(iii) bone charcoal

(iv) lamp black

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