Test: Coal, Coke & Synthetic Gas - JAMB MCQ

Gasoline is not a type of coal. The correct options for types of coal are anthracite, lignite, and bituminous.

Charcoal is the product obtained when wood is subjected to destructive distillation. Coke is obtained from coal.

Destructive distillation of coal produces coal tar, coal gas, and coke as the main products.

Anthracite has the highest carbon content among the types of coal.

Charcoal is commonly used as a reducing agent in the extraction of metals from their ores.

Coke is produced by the destructive distillation of coal.

The main use of coke is as a reducing agent in metallurgy, particularly in the 

Metallurgical coke has the highest carbon content among the different types of coke.

Synthetic gas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

Synthetic gas is primarily used in power generation.