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A substance such as [[coal]], [[natural gas]] or [[Petroleum crude oil|petroleum]] with a high percentage of [[carbon]] that can be burned to produce heat or energy, whose extraction is destructive to the environment, whose burning pollutes the atmosphere, and whose supplies are finite and not renewable.
 
Fossil fuels are substances having a high percentage of [[carbon]] and [[hydrocarbon]]s that were formed by the decay of [[biomass]] and other dead [[organisms]] over a time period of millions of years, the most common being [[coal]], [[natural gas]], [[fuel oil]] and various hydrocarbon [[gas]]es and [[liquid]]s derived from natural gas and [[petroleum crude oil]].

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A substance such as coal, natural gas or petroleum with a high percentage of carbon that can be burned to produce heat or energy, whose extraction is destructive to the environment, whose burning pollutes the atmosphere, and whose supplies are finite and not renewable.

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