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black coal

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black coal [¦blak ′kōl]
(geology)


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so-named for its 6,000-plus acre lake inhabited by throngs of heron and other waterfowl, local farmers and main street investors are building the state's first ethanol plant powered almost entirely by black coal.
In Glenn Ligon's silk screens depicting the 1995 Million Man March, images of African-American men surface and disappear, partially obscured by black coal dust--seemingly trying to make themselves visible in America, while their failure implies that it is impossible for the media to adequately represent them.
When Chapman digs a stick into the creek bed, it emerges covered in gummy, black coal sludge, which is buried an inch below the brown silt of the creek bed.
 
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