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Richmond Coal: Heating and Cooking
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"Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:41:38 -0400
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Richmond coal is "soft" and full of sulphur and other nasties that  
made it not useful for iron furnaces. It did, however, get shipped all  
up the east coast as heating fuel. The question rose this morning as  
to whether it was used in standard household cooking stoves in  
Richmond or whether there was one source for heating: coal and another  
for cooking: wood, as in the imparting of nasty elements from coal to  
the food would make wood the fuel of choice. Anyone seen anything on  
that?

Lyle Browning

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