coal

combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon
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coal

Summary

coal ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,663 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • coal is a type of solid fuel[2].
  • coal is a type of sedimentary rock[3].
  • coal is a type of fossil fuel[4].
  • coal is used for fuel[5].
  • coal's Commons category is recorded as Coal[6].
  • coal's color is recorded as black[7].
  • coal comprises carbon[8].
  • coal comprises Q16721862[9].
  • coal comprises maceral[10].
  • coal's has cause is recorded as climate change[11].
  • coal's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Coal[12].
  • coal's Commons gallery is recorded as Coal[13].
  • coal's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as resource=coal[14].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[16].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[17].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[20].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[21].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[22].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[23].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[24].
  • coal's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Dreizehnter Band[25].
  • coal's topic has template is recorded as Template:Coal[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include solid fuel[2], sedimentary rock[3], and fossil fuel[4].

Use and Application

coal is used for fuel[5]. Components include carbon[8], a chemical element[27]; Q16721862[9]; and maceral[10].

Influence

Things named for coal include Carboniferous[28], a period[29]; carbon[30], a chemical element[31]; sablefish[32], a taxon[33]; Coalwood[34], a town[35], in United States[36], founded in 1905[37]; Carbon County[38], a county of Pennsylvania[39], in United States[40], founded in 1843[41]; Coal City[42], a village of Illinois[43], in United States[44]; Coalville[45], a city in the United States[46], in United States[47], founded in 1859[48]; and Coal County[49].

Why It Matters

coal ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,663 views/month).[1] coal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] coal is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

Entities named for coal include Carboniferous[28], a period[29]; carbon[30], a chemical element[31]; sablefish[32], a taxon[33]; Coalwood[34], a town[35], in United States[36], founded in 1905[37]; Carbon County[38], a county of Pennsylvania[39], in United States[40], founded in 1843[41]; and Coal City[42], a village of Illinois[43], in United States[44].

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000091, https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockmaterial/Coal
    Mindat mineral id → 49310
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6263]]: 49310"
  2. 29d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000091, https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/rockmaterial/Coal
    Exact match → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Moving [[Property:P2888]] to [[Property:P1709]]"
  3. 7w ago · Sadads · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → solid fuel, sedimentary rock, fossil fuel
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q12748]]"
  4. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → AMD Quad FX platform
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4426
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295066, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1AlZJQ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → coal
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: coal, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289921265|coal (#289921265)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  7. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006630-uhli
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0006630-uhli, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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