Culm may refer to:
* Culm (in British English), imperfect
anthracite
Anthracite, also known as hard coal, and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the hig ...
, a variety of coal
**also some carboniferous rock strata known as the
Culm Measures
The Culm Measures are a thick sequence of geological strata originating during the Carboniferous Period that occur in south-west England, principally in Devon and Cornwall, now known as the Culm Supergroup. Its estimated thickness varies between 3 ...
* Culm (in American English),
coal refuse
Coal refuse (also described as coal waste, rock, slag, coal tailings, waste material, rock bank, culm, boney, or gob) is the material left over from coal mining, usually as tailings piles or spoil tips. For every tonne of hard coal generated by mi ...
or coal waste
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Culm (botany)
A culm is the aerial (above-ground) stem of a grass or sedge. It is derived from Latin 'stalk', and it originally referred to the stem of any type of plant.
In horticulture or agriculture, it is especially used to describe the stalk or woody ...
, the stem of a grass or sedge
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River Culm
The River Culm flows through the Devon Redlands in Devon, England and is the longest tributary of the River Exe. It rises in the Blackdown Hills at a spring near RAF Culmhead in Somerset, and flows west through Hemyock, then Culmstock (in th ...
, in Devon, England
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Chełmno
Chełmno (; older en, Culm; formerly ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Due to its regional importa ...
, Poland, formerly also known as Culm
See also
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Kulm (disambiguation) Kulm is a German language toponym derived from the Latin ''culmen'', meaning hill, and may refer to:
Places Austria
* Kulm bei Weiz, a municipality in Styria
* Kulm am Zirbitz, a municipality in Styria
* Kulm (ski flying venue), a ski jumping site ...
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Culm bank
In mining, tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction ( gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different to overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that overli ...
, a coalmine waste or spoil heap, a pitheap or as misnamed 'a slagheap'
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Culm bomb
A culm bomb (also culm ball, depending on location in Ireland) is a compressed ball of culm mixed with yellow clay as a binding agent. For roughly 400 years, culm bombs were used in Irish industry (''e.g.'' blacksmith's forges and grain drying ...
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Purple moor grass and rush pastures
Purple moor grass and rush pastures is a type of Biodiversity Action Plan habitat in the UK. It occurs on poorly drained neutral and acidic soils of the lowlands and upland fringe. It is found in the South West of England, especially in Devo ...
, in Devon and Cornwall known as culm grassland
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