We have like barbecue coal or bricettes, and coal ore as far as I know but I am no coal miner.
Either way it’s not like we get them confused because our language is a certain way.
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TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 months agoThere better be. Charcoal is semi-burnt wood. Coal is effectively ‘solid’ oil. Cooking with regular coal would be horrible.
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wandermind@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
In my language, the word for coal refers to both types, but you can specify “wood coal” or “rock coal” if necessary.
roguetrick@kbin.social 3 months ago
It makes sense. Coal in English is a word that originally meant a burning ember and likely related to charcoal that we then changed to exclusively mean rock coal