What is 'White Coal'?
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White coal is a form of fuel produced by drying chopped wood over a fire. It differs from charcoal which is carbonised wood. White coal was used in England to smelt lead ore from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. It produces more heat than green wood but less than charcoal and thus prevents the lead evaporating. White coal was produced in distinctive circular pits with a channel, known as Q-pits. They are frequently found in the woods of South Yorkshire.
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It's on the White Album
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The answer is obviously white.  White lighters are incredibly unlucky.  UNLUCKY!  Paul is here and he agrees.
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Coal is actually the world's most plentiful fossil fuel, but it is alos the dirtiest.  \n\nIt is non-renewable.  \n\nCoal mining is difficult and dangerous.  All over the world hundreds of coal miners die every year because of the hazards of mining it.\n\nBurning coal produces emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide which contribute ot acid rain and global warming.\n\nStrip mining, while safer for the miners, destroys large ares of landscape.\n\nCoal fired power stations need huge amounts of fuel, whihc means covering large areas of countryside close to the power station with piles of coal.\n\nI have attached some websites that should give more information.  I hope this helps.
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Here's a site devoted to KS coal plants:\nhttp://www.kansasenergy.org/coal_projects.htm
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"White ppt." refers to a precipitate coming out of solution that has a white color.\nAll sorts of chemicals are white, many salts, and other ionic compounds.  We can only give you a general form of a reaction that will yield a white precipitate and examples of those that do.\n\n[Reactants (aq)] ---> [Products (aq) + products (s)]\nSome reactants react in solution to form some products.  At least one of the products must be sufficiently insoluble to precipitate out.\n\nFor example,\nNaClO3 (aq) + KCl (aq) ---> NaCl (aq) + KClO3 (s) \nSodium Chlorate is very soluble in water, so is Potassium Chloride.  When you mix these solutions together, you yield Sodium Chloride (very soluble) and Potassium Chlorate which is not very soluble at all and precipitates out.  KClO3 by the way is snow white.
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Large tropical swamps. Wet, humid environment conducive to vast amounts of vegetation which contributed to the coal formations that we see today in parts of North America, Europe, & Siberia.\n\nThere is some good stuff listed below. Lots of info.
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bec its so white it doesnt absorb so much heat
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It's just an organic mineral like coal. It is created with enormous amounts of heat and pressure over millions of years from fossils. It really doesn't have a purpose it's just under the surface of the earth.
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kookaburra... white cricket ball!
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white...It's a polar bear
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whitish/grayish. It's really just made up of rock. Then again its just a humongous rock that's in orbit with us.
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Coal is composed of highly compacted, dewatered, and dehydrogenated plant material (a process called coalification). The compaction ratio is typically about 20 to 1 for bituminous coals. That means twenty feet of plant material piled up to make one foot of coal. The question of where the mercury came from may still be unanswered, but one group of researchers have suggested that the mercury was absorbed by the ancient plants from the atmosphere and soil while they were living. There is evidence that modern plants have levels of mercury that correspond with the levels found in coal. Even though the mercury levels in coal are low at 0.17 +/- 0.17 ppm the process of burning coal consumes such large volumes of coal that the mercury becomes a serious problem in the emissions from large power plants.
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White things are white because their chemical composition is balanced in such a way that it reflects the full spectrum of colors. The air has oxygen in it. Oxygen is very reactive with a lot of chemicals. As oxygen molecules bond with the chemicals in the white substance, the light is absorbed in different ways. Some wave lengths are reflected and others are absorbed. We commonly see this as a yellowing effect, but fading can result in other colors as well.
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White (also White people, White race or Whites) is a term used for a certain ethnic group or racial classification of people. Though literally implying light-skinned, "White" has been used in different ways at different times and places. Like other common words for the human ethnicities, its precise definition is somewhat unclear.\n\nA common connotation to the various definitions of "White" is that the term refers to people descended from European and adjacent areas, such as North Africa and the Middle East. Regions and countries that are today predominantly light skinned include all the countries of Europe, the Middle East, North America, parts of South America, Siberia, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe most recent United States Census (2000) defined the 'White' race as follows: "The term White refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." It includes people who indicated their race or races as "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Israeli, Syrian, Lebanese, Portuguese, or Polish."\n\nThe term has always had various definitions and interpretations at different times and places. Across the globe, and especially throughout the Western Hemisphere, a person's inclusion or exclusion from the the "White" group has been affected by past or present colloquial, scientific and legal understandings, including definitions based for such purposes as censuses, anti-miscegenation laws, affirmative action, racial quotas. All these, and the groups they involve, are explored throughout the article.\n\nThe need for operational definitions\n\nLike aesthetic terms such as beauty and balance, religious terms such as sin and grace, and political terms such as liberal and conservative, the terms White and Black reflect something important in the minds of those who use them, even if they cannot be defined objectively so that their application can be independently tested. The claim that any specific individual is Black or White cannot be falsified, so the concept can have no scientific value unless some operational definition of how one determines that a person is White is given. In scientific studies, more precise definitions than "White" or "Black" are usually provided. For example, in the large collaborative study of the HapMap which includes Whites and Blacks among four populations being examined, the terms used are "whites of Western and Northern European descent residing in Utah", and "Yoruba people, residing in Ibadan, Nigeria".\n\nThere is no single, universally-accepted, biological trait that allows a yes/no determination of whether a person is White or not. The operational definitions used in scientific work are not "absolute" either, but rather vary in specificity according to the purposes of the study or of the hypotheses being tested, and are chosen partly as a matter of convenience and cost. The operations, for example, could range from how the subject answers questions about himself on a survey, to the response of a light meter held against the skin with a cut-off meter-reading specified, to which of several ancestry-informative markers are present in the genes of the individual. These may, of course, be used alone or in combination.\n\nA problem with the appearance definition alone is that, as routinely demonstrated in college-level cultural-anthropology classes, "racial" appearance is partly in the eye of the beholder. The same individual seen as White by a Cuban can be seen as Black by an American. Furthermore, such perceptions change over time. Appearance alone is not easy to quantify or judge with complete precision, and can, of course, be deceiving.\n\nA problem with the self-identity definition alone is that there are often advantages and privileges among racial categories, so people will sometimes choose one or another
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Coal is derived from plant material.\nPlants build themselves from the products of photosynthesis and soil minerals.\nPhotosynthesis use sunlight energy to combine water from the soil and carbon dioxide from the air to make glucose.
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"White Buffalo" Turquoise\n\n\n\nWhen discovered in the Dry Creek Mine, north of Austin, Nevada, in 1993, they were not sure what it was. Because of its hardness, it was decided to send it in to be assayed and their suspicions proved correct; it was in fact White Turquoise. It was not until 1996, however, that it was finally made into jewelry. \n\nThe chemical name for Turquoise is Aluma Phosphate which, in its pure chemical state, is white. Turquoise takes on color via an intrusion of either copper or iron. In the case of Dry Creek ore, the slight coloration, when present, is the result of copper. The more intrusion, the darker the color.\n\nBlue turquoise forms where there is copper present, which is the case with most Arizona turquoises. Green turquoise forms where iron is present, the case with most Nevada turquoises. White Turquoise forms where there are no heavy metals present, which turns out to be a very rare occurrence. To date, no other vein of gem quality white turquoise has been discovered anywhere else in the world. When this current vein runs out, that will be the last of it. Because White Turquoise is as rare as a white buffalo, the Indians call it "White Buffalo" Turquoise. The White Turquoise is itself considered sacred and powerful. The jewelry-making  is an honoring or tribute to the "White Buffalo" Turquoise.