fossil fuel

Definition: The energy-containing materials which were converted over many thousands of years from their original form of trees, plants and other organisms after being buried in the ground. Physical and chemical processes occurred in the Earth's crust that changed them into coal, peat, oil or natural gas.(Source: WRIGHT) View other definitions Organization: European Environment Agency (EEA), European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources (ETC/CDS) Information Source: General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (Thesaurus) Download This section allows you to dynamically create a download file of the above information. Click on the radial button next to Formats for the download file, and click the Begin Download button. Please note file creation may take a few moments. Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 3 and all versions of AOL's browser prior to 5.0 are unable to use the download capability. Please contact us specifying your download request and options, and we will e-mail you the file.

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