Vocabulary on Reading Coal

1. Integrated: Indicating the mean value or total sum of a variable quantity of property.
2. Coal: A combustible black or dark brown rock consisting chiefly of carbonized plant
matter, found mainly in underground seams and used as fuel.
3. Gasify: A convert solid or liquid, especially coal into gas.
4. Flow: a liquid, gas, or electricity move steadily and continuously in a current or stream.
5. Shell: Each of a set of orbitals around the nucleus of an atom, occupied or able to be occupied by
electrons of similar energies.
6. Fuel: Material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power.
7. Gaseous: Relating of having the characteristics of a gas.
8. Quench: Rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), especially in cold water or oil.
9. Emission: The production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation.
10. Slurry: A semi-liquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal and water.
11. Bituminous: A containing or he nature of bitumen.
12. Pulverize: Reduce to fine particles.
13. Viscosity: The state of being thick, sticky, and semi-fluid in consistency, due to internal friction.
14. Oxidize: Combination of chemically with oxygen
15. Turbine: A machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted
with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid.
16. Extraction: The action of extracting (process of separating from miscible differences) something,
especially using effort or force.
17. Gasifier: A device for converting substances (chemically or physically) into gas.
18. Exothermic: The process of formed from its constituent elements with a net release of heat. It is
the opposite of endothermic.
19. Syngas: A mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen produced industrially, especially from coal,
and used as a feedstock in making synthetic chemicals.
20. Generator: A dynamo or similar machine for converting mechanical energy into electricity.
21. Latent Heat: Relating to change in phase between liquids, gases, and solids
22. Simulator: A machine designed to provide a realistic imitation of the controls and operation of a
vehicle, aircraft, or other complex system, used for training purposes.
23. Pressure: Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with
it.
24. Concentration: The relative amount of a particular substance contained within a solution or
mixture or in a particular volume of space.
25. Absorb: Take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action.
26. Density: The degree of compactness of a substance.
27. Separation: The generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a
moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds.
28. Vaporize: Convert or be converted into vapour.
29. Rank Coal: A position how high the degree of coal
30. Lignite: A soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous
coal and peat.
31. Carbon: The chemical element of atomic number 6, a non-metal which has two main forms
(diamond and graphite) and which also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal.
32. Thermal: Relating to heat.
33. Moisture: Water or other liquid diffused in a small quantity as vapour, within a solid, or condensed
on a surface.
34. Heat Exchanger: a device used to transfer heat between a solid object and a fluid, or between two or
more fluids.
35. Compressor: An instrument or device for compressing an chemical thing.
36. Combust: Consume or destroy by fire.
37. Oxygen: A colourless, odourless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the
life-supporting component of the air.
38. Temperature: The degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as
expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
39. Molten: Especially of materials with a high melting point, such as metal and glass that is liquefied
by heat.
40. Storage: The action or method of storing something for future use.
41. Comparison: A consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two
chemical things.
42. Energy: The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
43. Composition: The nature of something's ingredients or constituents.
44. Electricity: A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles such as electrons or
protons, either statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.
45. Reaction: A chemical process in which substances act mutually on each other and are changed into
different substances, or one substance changes into other substances.
46. Emit: Produce and discharge something, especially gas or radiation.
47. Assumption: A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.
48. Subcritical: Below a critical threshold.
49. Balance: A situation in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions.
50. Sensible Heat: Relating to change in temperature of a gas or object with no change in phase.