What is coal tar what are its uses?

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What is coal tar what are its uses?

• What is coal tar?
• Coal tar is a thick black liquid that is a
  by-product of the production of coal gas and
  coke. It contains many biochemicals such as
  benzene, naphthalene, phenols and aniline. It
  gets used for medical and industrial purposes.
  However, coal is also known as Mulch, Balnet,
  Alcohol Carbonis detergents, and Alcohol
  Carbonaceous Carbonis.

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What are the uses of coal tar?

• Coal tar is a remedy for itching, scaling and
  skin diseases.
• It gets used to treat dandruff and lice and gets
  used for medicated shampoos and soaps.
• Various phenolic coal tars have analgesic
  properties.
• Coal tar gets used to protect and beautify
  pavements, roads and parking lot seal-coat
  products.
• Coal tar is flammable. Therefore, it gets used
  for heating.
• Coal tar is one of the binders used for making
  green blocks in the graphite industry.
• Coal tar gets used in construction paints,
  synthetic dyes and photographic materials.

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What are the properties of coal tar?

• The characteristics of coal tar are
• The colour is black.
• It is semi-solid and semi-liquid in nature and is
  highly permeable.
• Its density is very thick and has a
  characteristic odour.
• Tar is insoluble in water.
• It has a boiling point between two hundred and
  fifty degrees Celsius.
• It is fuel resistant and is subject to higher
  temperatures than asphalt cement

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What is coal gas?

• Coal gas is one of the most useful fossil fuels.
  The mixture of gases obtained by distillation of
  coal got used for lighting and heating
  historically.
• It has many applications like domestic heat
  generation, industrial generator firing, and cast
  iron manufacturing. These byproducts are also
  beneficial for us.

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What are the uses of coal gas?

• Uses of coal gas are
• Most commonly, it is used as fuel.
• Coal gas gets used for lighting.
• It gets used for heating.
• Most of the people use this gas for cooking.
• Coal gas is also used as a lighter material.
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What is the formation of coal gas?

• Coal gas gets extracted from the distillation of
  soft coal, a by-product of coke. It has no
  definite structure. Most coal gases contain some
  hydrogen methane and other hydrocarbons, such
  as carbon monoxide (carbon dioxide), carbon
  dioxide and nitrogen.

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Coal oil and gas production

• Plants and animals decompose to produce fossil
  fuels. These fuels are found in the Earths crust
  and contain carbon and hydrogen. We can burn
  these fuels to produce energy. Oil first got
  discovered as a solid between layers of
  shale-like debris.
• Fossil fuels include crude oil, coal and
  natural gas. They got created over millions of
  years from the remains of dead organisms (coal
  formed from dead trees and other plant waste).
  Dead sea creatures also got used to generate
  crude oil and gas. Petroleum is a fossil fuel
  also known as crude oil.
• Petroleum gets produced from the remains of
  ancient marine life such as plants, algae and
  bacteria, and coal and natural gas. It is a
  fossil fuel composed of microscopic plants and
  animals. When these species die, they sink to the
  bottom of the ocean and become trapped under
  several layers of sand and silt.

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What is the structure of coal gas?

• Coal gas, also known as a gas mixture, is the
  fuel for hydrogen, methane, and carbon
• monoxide, produced by destructive distillation
  (continuous heating in the absence of
• air) of bituminous coal. Coal is composed of
  carbon with varying proportions of
• additional elements such as hydrogen, sulphur,
  oxygen and nitrogen. Coal gets
• produced when dead plant matter gets
  theoretically decomposed. Then the
• decomposed matter gets converted into coal by the
  heat and pressure of a deep grave
• over millions of years.
• The general composition of coal gas is as
  follows
• Hydrogen 50
• methane 35
• carbon monoxide 10
• ethylene 5

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What are coke and its uses?

• Coke is a high carbon product obtained by
  destructive distillation of coal. Coke is high
• in carbon, which is said to be an almost pure
  form of carbon. Coke is grey-black, thick
• and porous.
• Uses of Coke
• The most common use of coke is as a fuel for
  stoves, furnaces and kilns. It is sometimes
  preferred over coal because burning coal produces
  far less smoke.
• It is also used for the production of iron in
  blast furnaces.
• Coke is used to make steel and many other
  materials.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

• 1. What is producer gas?
• Producer gas is the product of burning coal or
  coke with a small amount of air and a limited
  amount of moisture. Producer gas is a gaseous
  mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon
  dioxide and nitrogen.
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• 2. What is the difference between coal gas and
  natural gas?
• Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel that is
  produced from coal and supplied to the end
  consumer. Natural gas is a fossil fuel used for
  heating, cooking and generating electricity.
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• 3. Why is coal gas poisonous?
• The nitrogen in coal, like sulfur, reacts with
  oxygen in the air to form nitrogen oxides.
  Nitrogen oxides can react with them to produce
  ozone and other pollutants. Humans and other
  animals and plants are at risk from these toxins.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

• 4. Is coal gas still used?
• Coal gas is combustible and was used for heating
  and municipal lighting prior to the large-scale
  extraction of natural gas from oil wells. In
  current practice, large-scale coal gasification
  installations are primarily intended for power
  generation or chemical production.
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• 5. What is coal made of?
• Coal is a waste rock that is black or grey-black
  in colour and can be burned for fuel or used to
  generate energy. It is primarily composed of
  carbon and hydrocarbons, both of which contain
  energy that can be released during combustion
  (burning).

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