carbon vs coal

carbon and coal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carbon	Yes	No	No	No
coal	Yes	No	Yes	No

carbon (noun)	coal (noun)
a copy made with carbon paper	a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds	fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper