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Chapter 5 Multiple choice questions
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Section 5.2 describes the introduction of the use of coal as a fuel. What constituent of Durham coal made it undesirable as a replacement for wood fuel?
Nitrogen
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Hydrogen
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Sulfur
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The smelting of iron ore requires using carbon in what form?
Charcoal or coke
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Peat or brown coal
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High sulfur coal
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The nature of coal is described in Section 5.3. Which form of coal has the highest proportion of carbon?
Peat
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Lignite
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Bituminous coal
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Anthracite
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Section 5.4 describes the uses of coal including the production of town gas from coal. What were the main gaseous constituents of town gas?
Carbon monoxide, methane, and hydrogen
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Hydrogen and carbon dioxide
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Methane and ethane
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How is water gas made?
By passing an electric current through water
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By spraying water onto red-hot coke
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By bubbling town gas through water
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Section 5.5 describes the global coal resource. Box 5.4 describes the distinction between reserves and resources. How would a body of coal be described that was firmly known to exist but was not actually economic to mine?
A coal reserve
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A hypothetical coal resource
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A conditional coal resource
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What proportion of US coal comes from the state of Wyoming?
A quarter
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Over 40%
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60%
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Section 5.6 describes fires, furnaces, and boilers. A pulverized fuel boiler burns coal in what form?
Crushed to gravel-sized lumps
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Crushed to a fine dust
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As large pieces
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Which gas makes up the bulk of power station flue gases?
Sulfur dioxide
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Carbon dioxide
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Nitrogen
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Oxygen
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The use of flue gas desulfurization is likely to require large quantities of which mined mineral?
Limestone
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Bauxite
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Lithium carbonate
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