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 (776 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • coal's image is recorded as Coal (Anthracite).JPG[2].
  • coal's chemical structure is recorded as Struktura chemiczna węgla kamiennego.svg[3].
  • coal's GND ID is recorded as 4031641-5[4].
  • coal's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85027307[5].
  • coal's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11941871n[6].
  • coal's subclass of is recorded as solid fuel[7].
  • coal's subclass of is recorded as sedimentary rock[8].
  • coal's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570578[9].
  • coal's has use is recorded as fuel[10].
  • coal's Commons category is recorded as Coal[11].
  • coal's color is recorded as black[12].
  • coal's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D003031[13].
  • coal's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 22563[14].
  • coal's has part is recorded as carbon[15].
  • coal's has part is recorded as Q16721862[16].
  • coal's has part is recorded as maceral[17].
  • coal's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01sy7[18].
  • coal's MeSH tree code is recorded as D20.345.108[19].
  • coal's MeSH tree code is recorded as N06.230.132.258.108[20].
  • coal's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph116524[21].
  • coal's has cause is recorded as climate change[22].
  • coal's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Coal[23].
  • coal's Commons gallery is recorded as Coal[24].
  • coal's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX525141[25].
  • coal's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 553.24[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for coal include Carboniferous[27], a period[28]; carbon[29], a chemical element[30]; sablefish[31], a taxon[32]; Coalwood[33], a town[34], in United States[35], founded in 1905[36]; Carbon County[37], a county of Pennsylvania[38], in United States[39], founded in 1843[40]; Coal City[41], a village of Illinois[42], in United States[43]; Coal County[44], a county of Oklahoma[45], in United States[46], founded in 1907[47]; and Coalville[48].

Why It Matters

coal ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (776 views/month).[1] coal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] coal is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Entities named for coal include Carboniferous[27], a period[28]; carbon[29], a chemical element[30]; sablefish[31], a taxon[32]; Coalwood[33], a town[34], in United States[35], founded in 1905[36]; Carbon County[37], a county of Pennsylvania[38], in United States[39], founded in 1843[40]; and Coal City[41], a village of Illinois[42], in United States[43].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Iowa State University Library Vocabularies. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . un.org. Retrieved . un.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . datos.bne.es. datos.bne.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [41] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [48] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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