"Coal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A natural fuel formed by partial decomposition of vegetable matter under certain environmental conditions.
| Descriptor ID |
D003031
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.345.108 N06.230.132.258.108
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| Concept/Terms |
Peat Coal- Peat Coal
- Coal, Peat
- Coals, Peat
- Peat Coals
Lignite- Lignite
- Lignites
- Lignitious Coal
- Coal, Lignitious
- Coals, Lignitious
- Lignitious Coals
- Brown Coal
- Brown Coals
- Coal, Brown
- Coals, Brown
Bituminous Coal- Bituminous Coal
- Bituminous Coals
- Coal, Bituminous
- Coals, Bituminous
- Soft Coal
- Coal, Soft
- Coals, Soft
- Soft Coals
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Coal" by people in Profiles.
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Coal fly ash is a major carbon flux in the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) basin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 05 25; 118(21).
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Sub-multiplicative interaction between polygenic risk score and household coal use in relation to lung adenocarcinoma among never-smoking women in Asia. Environ Int. 2021 02; 147:105975.
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Cooking Coal Use and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Prospective Cohort Study of Women in Shanghai, China. Environ Health Perspect. 2016 09; 124(9):1384-9.
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Home kitchen ventilation, cooking fuels, and lung cancer risk in a prospective cohort of never smoking women in Shanghai, China. Int J Cancer. 2015 Feb 01; 136(3):632-8.
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A taxing environment: evaluating the multiple objectives of environmental taxes. Environ Sci Technol. 2002 Dec 15; 36(24):5289-95.
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Excess leukemia and multiple myeloma in a mining county in northeast Texas. Tex Med. 1994 Feb; 90(2):55-9.
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The effects of zinc on the alveolar macrophage cytotoxicity due to Ni-coal dust. Chin Med J (Engl). 1990 Sep; 103(9):754-8.