What is coal? Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago. All living plants store solar energy through a process known as photosynthesis.
Dynamic equilibrium. Definition. noun. A system in a steady state since forward reaction and backward reaction occur at the same rate. Supplement. In a dynamic equilibrium, the rate of loss is equal to the rate of gain. Dynamic equilibrium is applied in thermodynamics for systems involving reversible reactions.
equilibrium; chemical equilibrium. Hypernyms (equilibrium is a kind of...): chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of equilibrium): poise (a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium) Nash equilibrium ((game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged)