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Andy Burns[_13_]

wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

I suppose you can't leave a mountain of coal out in the rain
indefinitely ...
it's been sitting in the wet for millions of years already. I can't
see how it would shrink 10% a year other than by shrinkage, but I'm
no coalologist.
Dunno, thought I'd read that getting wet increased the likelihood of
self-combustion, they do keep busy turning the heap over at
Ratcliffe-on-Soar all year round ...