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 Coal is formed from plant life buried in the Earth millions of years ago. Like Petroleum and natural gas, it is a carbon-based fossil fuel.  Coal is called a fossil fuel b â¦ ecause it was formed from the remains of vegetation that grew as long ago as 400 million years.
Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock composed mostly of carbon and hydrocarbons. It is the most abundant fossil fuel produced in the United States, but it is a nonrenewable resource.The energy in coal comes from the energy stored by plants that lived hundreds of millions of years ago in swampy forests.ituminous coal is also used to produce coke for making steel and other industrial process heating. Coal gasification and coal liquefaction (coal-to-liquids) are also possible uses of coal for producing synthetic fuel.