fossil fuel

combustible fuel containing hydrocarbons formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, examples being coal, petroleum and natural gas
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fossil fuel

Summary

fossil fuel is a type of natural resource[1]. It draws 1,279 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_natural_resource category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • fossil fuel's image is recorded as Combustibles fossiles.png[3].
  • fossil fuel's instance of is recorded as type of natural resource[4].
  • fossil fuel's made from material is recorded as organic matter[5].
  • fossil fuel's GND ID is recorded as 4211713-6[6].
  • fossil fuel's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85051023[7].
  • fossil fuel's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12049963t[8].
  • fossil fuel's subclass of is recorded as fuel[9].
  • fossil fuel's subclass of is recorded as energy source[10].
  • fossil fuel's subclass of is recorded as non-renewable resource[11].
  • fossil fuel's subclass of is recorded as mineral resource[12].
  • fossil fuel's has use is recorded as nonrenewable energy[13].
  • fossil fuel's Commons category is recorded as Fossil fuels[14].
  • fossil fuel's opposite of is recorded as environmental fuel[15].
  • fossil fuel's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D005579[16].
  • fossil fuel's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 41520[17].
  • fossil fuel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cx6y[18].
  • fossil fuel's MeSH tree code is recorded as D20.345[19].
  • fossil fuel's MeSH tree code is recorded as N06.230.132.258[20].
  • fossil fuel's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph120307[21].
  • fossil fuel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fossil fuels[22].
  • fossil fuel's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX543092[23].
  • fossil fuel's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300015148[24].
  • fossil fuel's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 553.2[25].
  • fossil fuel's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10636986[26].
  • fossil fuel's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1555[27].

Why It Matters

fossil fuel draws 1,279 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_natural_resource category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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