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accumulation of partially decayed vegetation
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peat

Summary

peat ranks in the top 0.76% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,094 views/month, #589 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • peat is a type of biogenic sediment[2].
  • peat is a type of fossil fuel[3].
  • peat is a type of raw material[4].
  • peat's Commons category is recorded as Peat[5].
  • peat's said to be the same as is recorded as Q61071167[6].
  • peat's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Peat[7].
  • peat's Commons gallery is recorded as Peat[8].
  • peat's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as resource=peat[9].
  • peat's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • peat's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • peat's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • peat's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • peat's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[14].
  • peat's studied by is recorded as peat chemistry[15].
  • peat's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16].
  • peat's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include biogenic sediment[2], fossil fuel[3], and raw material[4].

Why It Matters

peat ranks in the top 0.76% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,094 views/month, #589 of 77,819).[1] peat has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] peat is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → biogenic sediment, fossil fuel, raw material
    Said to be the same as → Q61071167
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Otto's encyclopedia +2
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 10336, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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